Kathleen Hanna Quotes

When I'm tired, I rest. I say, 'I can't be a superwoman today.'

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.

Women need to hear the words, 'It's okay if things don't go exactly the way you want them to.' Give yourself a break!

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,'' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.

Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.

Realize that you can't make everyone happy.

You can't juggle it all 100 percent. You don't have to be perfect. You don't have to do everything.

Sometimes you have to give yourself a break.

Be kind. Be nice to yourself. You miss a shot, it's OK.

I believe in being diligent but also cut yourself some slack. It's okay in the grand scheme of life.

I want to make sure that people feel it's okay to make a mistake, to have a bad hair day, to look bad sometimes. It takes the pressure off them.

I will always try to be as normal as I can. Obviously, there may have to be some limits with it, but I am still a fan at heart and want to live like a normal person.

I don't always have to be the best. Things don't always have to be perfect.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If you won’t be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.

Let me extend that generosity to myself.

My advice for someone who wants to be creative but has a chronic illness is to think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that. It's just like gardening: What can grow in this soil? There's some soil you can grow roses in and some soil you can only grow cactuses in, so if you can only grow cactuses, become the best cactus grower in the whole world. Taking care of yourself is the most important thing. Find something that makes you happy. Don't get down on yourself that you can't run a 4K or dance all night long at a fun club. Give yourself a break.

I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight them at your desk hopelessly; then you lose both the day and your self-respect. Treat them as physical phenomena -- casually -- and obey them.

Bring acceptance and compassionate self-talk. Say nice things to yourself - you're the only one listening. Tell yourself, I am doing the best I can.

Be gentle with yourself. Kiss away your (imagined) faults and remember, if you saw you as God sees you, you would smile a lot.

Offer some gesture of kindness to yourself. Sometimes it's just a message, to say: "It's okay. You're going to be okay. We've been through this before." The intention is reassurance, that you are not alone and you can do this. It is the most powerful way to come out of what I call the "trance of unworthiness."