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Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.
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But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.
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If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.
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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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Lying in bed, you know, you don't seem so tall.
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Someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said.
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