Kathleen Hanna Quotes

When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

I would hate to meet myself at 15.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

I was just over high school, and I was kind of artsy.

I was angry and frustrated when I was younger and didn't know my place in the world.

Truthfully, I'm still Corey Hart, Dad, first.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

When you're 13, you're still trying to figure out your style.

I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

I want to continue to be me and share with people.

I was an angst-y journal writing kid.

I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sorts of different styles of music, I like all sorts of different styles of clothes, I like all sorts of different colors of hair.

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.

On the first album I was saying, that's just one part of me. And then I was thinking, well, am I going to hide the rest of me now just because I'm afraid of something? No. I'm just going to be myself.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

I choose to express myself.

Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

I loved high school. I had the best high school experience of all time. I know that's not a common feeling, but it's the best. You're like, you know, 14 and expressing yourself on a daily basis creatively? That's pretty incredible.

For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' - and it was pathetic for years - it was awful.

I'm a human being, I'm a friend, I'm a mom, I'm a writer, and I'm an artist. I do play electric guitar and all of that, but in the end, I'm just a person.