Kathleen Hanna Quotes

I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out.

When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.

When Rudy Giuliani became mayor of New York in 1993, his belief in the 'Broken Windows' theory led him to implement the 'Zero Tolerance' crime policy. Crime dropped dramatically, significantly, and continued to for the next ten years. Personally, I feel the time has come for women to introduce their own Zero Tolerance policy on the Broken Windows issues in our lives - I want a Zero Tolerance policy on 'All The Patriarchal Bullshit'.

I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go the whole way.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

You may hiss as much as you please, but women will get their rights anyway. You can’t stop us, neither

My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here for forty-three years, it's, like, whoa, there is just so much more to do, other than become myself. I'm still talking about it. I still drop the P-word, "patriarchy," on unsuspecting people in everyday conversations.

A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.

I am a feminist with a capital 'F' .

I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.

I just got asked by another journalist 'Are you a feminist?' and I was just like... Is there a strange thing at the moment where you have to come out as a feminist? I've been asked if I'm a feminist so many times recently, and I'm just like 'Yes, yes, for God's sake, yes! Is there something that I give off that says I'm not?'

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

Women are feminist by default.

I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.

I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.

...feminism never harmed anybody unless it was some feminists. The danger is that the study and contemplation of "ourselves" may become so absorbing that it builds by slow degrees a high wall that shuts out the great world of thought.

Feminism requires precisely what patriarchy destroys in women: unimpeachable bravery in confronting male power

I can hear the roar of women's silence.

I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.

Topple the Patriarchy

I don't consider myself a feminist, but boy, I won't lay down and play dead, ever.

I’m a bit of a feminist and I carry a machete! I try to be a strong female. I think it’s important. My mum is my idol in life. She’s a very strong woman. I think it’s important for women to be strong and intelligent and hold their own.

I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.