Eddie Vedder, of Pearl Jam,
"The music is a fine reason to come, and the fact is it's spreading
a message...you're getting through."
[The Fight for the Right to Choose, Rolling Stone, 3/18/93]
"I'm usually good about my temper, but all these men trying
to control women's bodies are really beginning to piss me off.
They're talking from a bubble. They're not talking from the street,
and they're not in touch with what's real. Well, I'm fucking mean,
and I'm ugly, and my name is reality."
[Rock and Roll, Rolling Stone, 5/5/94]
Donita Sparks, of L7,
"It used to bum me out as a kid when I would go to peace or ERA
rallies with my mother, and there would be people singing, 'Kum
Ba Yah, my sister, Kum Ba Yah,' it was so unmotivating. So we
decided that we just had to rock the house. That was a good way
to get more people to get involved, and if they didn't want to
get involved, at least we had their money."
[Banding Together, Rolling Stone, 10/6/94]
Exene Cervenka, of X,
"They come for the music, but they see people like Eddie Vedder
and L7, people they really respect and love, speaking out on this
issue, it becomes part of the experience, and they accept it with
the music."
[The Fight for the Right to Choose, Rolling Stone, 3/18/93]
Elizabeth Davis, of 7 Year Bitch,
"I think the shows demonstrate the strength we have in numbers
and our refusal to be quiet and passive when it comes to our rights
over our bodies."
[Banding Together, Rolling Stone, 10/6/94]