Kathleen Hanna Quotes

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

I've always considered myself a feminist, I always considered myself somebody who is a reproductive rights activist, and I've spent the past 25 years of my life speaking truth to power. And using humor to do that.

We need to reclaim the word feminism. We need to reclaim the word feminism real bad.

I'm like a bit of a feminist, I have kinds of highly political dreams. I'm a dreamer about taking on the patriarchy and all that kinda stuff. So I actually have the secret belief that there are enough people who would consider themselves quote-unquote "other" to support my particular taste.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

I do consider myself a feminist, yeah. Totally.

How can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you're not a feminist, then you're a problem.

I'm a feminist with a capital 'F' and have always had a passion for policy.

There is no question I consider myself a feminist, but I also think the term 'feminist' has become a topical thing to say without backing it up with any real action.

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

I remember getting to college and all of a sudden realizing that feminism was a dirty word to a lot of people and it was baffling to me. I would tell people that I was a feminist and they would look at me and go, "Why?" And that just made me feel more at home in those shoes.

All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.

It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

Let us have a fair field! This is all we ask, and we will be content with nothing less. The finger of evolution, which touches everything, is laid tenderly upon women. They have on their side all the elements of progress, and its spirit stirs within them. They are fighting, not for themselves alone, but for the future of humanity. Let them have a fair field!

We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy... I refer to myself as a feminist, and I do it with pride.

... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

Equality for women is progress for all.

But millions at one time, beyond gender or race, had their attention fixed on her, and with that power, she chose to flash the word "feminist" all over our TV screens. If that don't do nothin' but make people Google the word, then that should make every feminist in the world proud.

I guess I am a feminist of sorts. I love women so much, and I celebrate the feminine in me because I appreciate it so much.

To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed.

You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

I would love for people to know that the label 'feminist' is something that everyone should wear proudly, because it just means that you support women.

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.