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Because we don't wanna assimilate to someone else's (boy) standards of what is or isn't.

— Kathleen Hanna

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As quoted in Fierce, Funny Feminists, The Feminist eZine.

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer. I mean, it's not like Stevie Nicks or Linda Ronstadt were dogs. It's not like this is some new thing. But there was at one point a larger variety, but now the catchphrase is "the whole package," the "American Idol" reality that you're a model first and a singer second.

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