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

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'
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Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.
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In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.
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Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people
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As any mom knows, having a baby is an extremely creative act and to love and create a baby, it's on par with any other creative act that we could come up with.
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Women who don't control their own reproductive rights are not free.
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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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We've got ego's like hairdos.
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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.
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It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that.
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Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.
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Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other'.
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I just don't know any other word than feminist that describes a person who believes women are people.
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I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!
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While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized.
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What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to.
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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 don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.
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We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's just the way it goes, better to be dusty than polished, like some store window mannequin, why don't you touch me where i'm rusty, let me stain your hands
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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.
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