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I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.
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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've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.
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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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My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.
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I sincerely believe patriarchy to be at the root of all of our social diseases and feminism, it's antidote, to be a prerequisite to peace on earth. feminism provides an alternative way of thinking and structuring things that focuses on and prioritizes relationships and de-emphasizes hierarchy, separation and domination.
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My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to the page...that way was kind of intimidating to me, yet intriguing, to try to reflect the rhythms and connotations and emotions that you can deliver, speaking-wise, on a page.
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I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
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We have to really be intentional right now about holding the media accountable, and taking back the discourse and terms of discussion. It's been hijacked.
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If more people were screamin', I could relax.
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I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.
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I used to be a superhero no one could touch me, not even myself. You are like a phone booth I somehow stumbled into, and now look at me - I am just like everybody else.
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Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.
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I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.
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There's a paradox in every paradigm.
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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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Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
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I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.
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I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when I bring the songs to people on stage, it's very joyous.
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