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

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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Guitarist
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Angela Maria DiFranco
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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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Smile pretty and watch your back
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I think if we can't use the word feminist, if it's some kind of taboo or dirty word, or means you're ugly, or you're angry, or you're not dateable [laughs], then you've just reduced the language by a whole concept.
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Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
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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.
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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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Change the narrative, change the laws.
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If you’re not angry, then you’re just stupid, you don’t care. How else can you react when something’s so unfair?
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I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof
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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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I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.
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Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!
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When I look around I think this, this is good enough And I laugh at whatever life brings because when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff and when I look up, I just trip over things.
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Privilege is a headache, that you don't know that you don't have.
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Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.
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Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.
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When I was a teenager in the '80s, I was the only girl in the guitar shop. Now if you walk into a music store, it's mostly teenage girls. It's great! It's an expansion of possibilities for young women, finding a way to tools even if they aren't directly handed those tools by adults.
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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'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people.
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I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.
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