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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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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.
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I'm an all powerful amazon warrior, not just some sniveling girl.
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I'm aware enough, I guess, of American labor history.
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Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now.
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and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back
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My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here for forty-three years, it's, like, whoa, there is just so much more to do, other than become myself. I'm still talking about it. I still drop the P-word, patriarchy, on unsuspecting people in everyday conversations.
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Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.
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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
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How come I can pick my ears but not my nose?
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The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.
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I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look at everything around me and vow to keep in mind that alla this is just someone's idea. It could have just as well been mine.
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The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy.
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There is no alternative. A Democrat is a Republican is a big businessman, and we're all consumers instead of citizens. It just manifests in the culture, in the music, in the art. I feel a little panicky about it.
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Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-- And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer.
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I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.
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I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen
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