Ani DiFranco Quotes

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

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

I know men are delicate origami creatures who need women to unfold them, hold them when they cry. But I am tired of being your savior and I am tired of telling you why.

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.

Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

We are wise, wise women. We are giggling girls.

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

I used to be a superhero; no one could touch me, not even myself. You are like a phone booth I somehow stumbled into, and now look at me - I am just like everybody else.

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

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

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

Too much is how I love you, but too well is how I know you.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by.

I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask

I know my mind is made of matter but I need to know exactly what is the matter at it's core? Because my heart is just a muscle and simply put, it's sore.

[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.

In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other'.

I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!

If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.

When I look down, I miss all the good stuff And when I look up, I just trip over things.

I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.

Freedom and democracy, That's the word from Washington every day. Put America to sleep with warm milk and clichés, And people are expendable along the way.

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

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.

I am still praying for revolution.

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

They taught me different was wrong.

In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

If more people were screamin', I could relax.

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

Birth is the epicenter of women's power

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.