Ani DiFranco Quotes
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a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned
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I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.
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I speak without reservation, from what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding that all people should have the right to offer their voices to the chorus whether the result is harmony or dissonance. The worldsong is a colorless dirge without the differences that distinguish us, and it is that difference which should be celebrated not condemned.
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And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.
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Lying in bed, you know, you don't seem so tall.
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Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
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I fear that Donald Trump will continue to be followed around by the media in its totality as he continues to rail against Hillary Clinton.
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One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.
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My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you're all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself?
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I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.
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When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.
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The world is my oyster. The road is my home. And I know that I'm better off Alone.
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There's a crowd of people harbored in each person There are so many roles that we play.
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God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past
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Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.
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A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.
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Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.
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I feel like we need to understand feminism more as a tool to mediate, counteract, to ultimately defeat patriarchy and restore balance to our government, our culture and our ways of thinking and structuring the world. I think we've had a very "masculine" sensibility for a long time, and I think we need to go back to the roots of social imbalance. I think we have to try to right that first, and from there and all these more pressing issues will follow.
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Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
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I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.
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One thing I do find in the "lost" generation or something is a kind of abhorrence of history, you know, like it's boring, dumb, or just not interesting. I think it's terribly interesting if you can get your head around how it relates to where you're standing right here and now.
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I'm pretty much a workaholic, but when you're doing what you love it's hard to think of a reason to stop.
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The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal.
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Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.
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My main tactic is to focus on the people I respect. The people I think are great people. Do I have their respect? Do I have their support? If the answer is "yes," then I'm doing ok.
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I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.
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I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.
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I use my dress to wipe up my drink, I care less and less what people think.
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I was supposed to be cool about this, yeah, I remember - cool was the plan. Tried to keep it all under wraps, but the wraps kept going slack. I keep turning round, I keep coming back.
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I did a lot of work with myself over the course of being pregnant and the first few months of being pregnant. It's nice, the pace of being pregnant; it gives you a long time to not just germinate a baby but germinate the mother that you're gonna be.
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