Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put out music that didn't sound super loud and aggressive. And yet they were punk because they were creating culture in their own community instead of taking their cue from MTV about what was real music and what was cool. It wasn't about a certain fashion. It was about your ideology, it was about creating a community and doing it on your own and not having to rely on, kinda, "The Man" to brand you and say that you were okay.

Kathleen Hanna's Popular Quotes

I don't want to waste the precious moments I have, and I've felt that way since I was 17. I have to take risks because why else would you be alive? P…

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Find something that makes you happy, like looking at beautiful pictures, or, if you're able, listening to beautiful music, or sitting by the window a…

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I won't stop talking. I am a girl you have no control over. There is not a gag big enough to handle this mouth.

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There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're sti…

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I don't need to convince men that feminism is important, that just isn't a goal of mine. I can't even have that conversation of whether or not it's i…

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It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.

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Think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that.

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Internalized sexism that makes us feel like we can't show ourselves not being perfect.

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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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