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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.

My songs are just little letters to me.

Ani DiFranco

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.

Ani DiFranco

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.

Ani DiFranco

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

Ani DiFranco

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

Ani DiFranco

I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.'

Ani DiFranco

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

Ani DiFranco

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

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I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word 'marriage.' Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights.

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

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If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.

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When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that 'just say it' attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private; it's all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life.

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If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.

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It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

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We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

Ani DiFranco

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

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Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

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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.

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Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

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Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

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Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

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People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

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I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

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Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.

Ani DiFranco

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Ani DiFranco

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

Ani DiFranco

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.

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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.

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Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

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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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Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

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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.

Ani DiFranco

They taught me different was wrong.

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You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

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I'm not one of those people who has an act.

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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?

Ani DiFranco