“I don't give a damn 'bout my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.”
Joan Jett·Bad Reputation
“Build a good name, keep your name clean, don't take anything, don't be beholden to any man.”
Patti Smith
“No one ever asks a man, 'What's it like to be a man in a band?'”
Kim Gordon
“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.”
Janis Joplin
“Don't be a lady, be a legend.”
Stevie Nicks
“Find something you really care about and mix that with something you love doing. For me, it was ending violence against women, and I mixed it with music.”
Kathleen Hanna
“I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.”
Courtney Love
“The only place left for rock to go is toward more girl stars. There's nothing left for men to do.”
Debbie Harry
“We didn't want to be the girlfriends of the band. We wanted to be the band.”
Ann Wilson
“I didn't do it for the girls. I did it for myself. But by doing it for myself, I did it for the girls.”
Suzi Quatro
“To be an authentic woman, you don't have to be sweet or pretty or soft. You can be loud, messy, and angry.”
Shirley Manson
“This world is bullshit. And you shouldn't model your life about what you think that we think is cool... Go with yourself.”
Fiona Apple
“I was always told, 'Girls don't play guitar.' I just said, 'Watch me.'”
Lita Ford
“I don't think about gender when I play. I just play.”
Annie Clark
“We didn't have any female role models to look up to who were doing what we wanted to do, so we just had to become them.”
Donita Sparks
“There's no rulebook for how you're supposed to behave as a woman in rock. You just have to write your own.”
Karen O
“Can't no man play like me. I play better than a man.”
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
“I'm a liability to them — I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.”
Alanis Morissette
“You don't need anyone's permission to be exactly who you want to be.”
Hayley Williams
“I'm just a girl in the world... That's all that you'll let me be.”
“She made my riot grrrl heart sing on first listen”
OriginBrazil → UK
Brazilian punk rocker, now based in Britain. Her solo project rose from the ashes of Violet Soda and took off with the viral 2023 single "Sick Ride", which landed her a deal with Hopeless Records. Self-styled "Latin riot grrrl": feminist punk, and loud about Latin American artists.
