Ani DiFranco Quotes

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

I mean, whatWhat if no one's watchingWhat if when we're deadWe are just deadI mean, whatWhat if it's...

I am not an angry girlBut it seems like I’ve got everyone fooledEvery time I say something they find...

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and...

Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. ...

I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap.

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, ...

Everyone is a fuckin' Napoleon.

and half of learning to play is learning what not to playand she's learning the spaces she leaves ha...

You broke me bodily.The heart ain't the half of it,And I'll never learn to laugh at itIn my good nat...

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's...

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the win...

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always ha...

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or betw...

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that ...

a lesson must be livedin order to be learnedand the clarity to see and stop this nowthat is what i'v...

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and sudde...

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect th...

And she tried the high heels but she couldn't bring herself to prance.

We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road,I guess that's what they call charact...

When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things ...

And what if there are no damsels in distress?What if I knew that, and I called your bluff?Don't you ...

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn't seem fair tha...

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.