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I made the decision that my contribution needed to be more musical than political. My music was enough, politically. Art matters. Art was enough. My music was enough to say what I had to say.

Kathleen Hanna

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Kathleen Hanna
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: November 12
Film Actor
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Portland
Oregon
Julie Ruin
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It's the idea that we as people can control our own destinies. The government and the corporations, more even than the government, can't dictate what artwork we're supposed to like or what comedy we're supposed to laugh at.
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I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a feminist doesn't mean I'm gonna say that I like every other woman's work, or that I appreciate another statement that another woman publicly made.
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It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.
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I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.
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If I had to choose between the band or the friendships, I'd choose the friendships at this point.
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I really love that I'm giving myself the opportunity finally to not have the pressure of every single song you do having to be political or whatever. I'm just making what I wanna make.
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It was one of the first things I did on my own I worked at McDonald's, raised the money and did it. I'm really, really passionate about pro-choice, because I wouldn't be here talking to you right now if I'd had a kid at 15.
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Popularity is totally overrated.
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Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much.
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When I get stressed out my de-stress default is - not cat videos - but I just watch his surrogates. They're so entertaining. It's like escapees from the Nordstrom cosmetics counter.
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When I first started out I actually was trying to use music to promote feminist ideas and at certain points, anti-violence against women and girls-type causes I was involved in.
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I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.
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I wanna be a legend I wanna be a cult hero. I do!
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I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.
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I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It's connected to racism and classism and gender issues that go beyond the binary.
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It's really cool that Miley Cyrus said she's the biggest feminist ever. I was like, 'That's the sound of 200,000 eight-year-olds Googling the word feminist!
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You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.
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I'm so language-based and I'm so about communicating, and my art has always been very audience-based, and very about being functional and communicating something, and about feeling like I have to be heard.
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I don't think I've ever had a woman yell that at me, but women have yelled mean things at me as well.
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I don't consider myself a divining rod whom God is speaking through or any kind of crap like that.
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