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I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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Love isn't over when the sheets are stained.
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The way I play guitar is very, very hard and I bloody myself incredibly without the tape. And the nails are my picks.
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When I look down, I miss all the good stuff And when I look up, I just trip over things.
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Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?
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Women who don't control their own reproductive rights are not free.
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I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.
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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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For me, the stronger ground I have in my personal life, then the more will I have to fight the good fight.
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Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.
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When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.
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I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.
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I always feel I have to take a stand, And there's always someone on hand To hate me for standing there. I always feel I have to open my mouth, And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.
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...words are some of the most powerful and important things I know....Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warning flag of danger--and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace.
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All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.
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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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One thing that Barack Obama promised, one thing that we all know we must do is evolve our industry and our technology to being green and sustainable. We need to move away from fossil fuels and nuclear power, both of which I think spell doom for human society.
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In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.
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I have earned my disillusionment.
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