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There's a paradox in every paradigm.
Ani DiFranco
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Ani DiFranco
Age: 53
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.
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I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.
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I'm an all powerful amazon warrior, not just some sniveling girl.
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I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.
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My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds my gaze The foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phase Just a phase.
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Freedom and democracy, That's the word from Washington every day. Put America to sleep with warm milk and clichés, And people are expendable along the way.
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What I like way better than LGBT in terms of labeling sexuality actually is a scheme that comes to me from my friend Animal Prufrock wherein one is identified not by what they supposedly are but rather by what they are into. Which brings us to the terms hemosexual, shemosexual, and mosexual.
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You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.
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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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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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I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people.
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Women who don't control their own reproductive rights are not free.
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Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor.
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I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.
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And if there's anything I do it's change and grow. I'm just a living being. Every year of my life I seem to learn that everything I know is wrong.
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