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Let's show them all how it's done, let's do it all imperfectly.

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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I'm an all powerful amazon warrior, not just some sniveling girl.
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There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism. People look at me sideways now and are like, With everything going on, the destruction of the environment, these endless wars, this capitalism that has a stranglehold on our culture and our world and you're talking about feminism still?
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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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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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Maybe we are both good people who've done some bad things.
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For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl...anticipate.
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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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Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.
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We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.
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It's the ground that we walk on, it's where we sit, it's the language that we use. It's a difficult undertaking, but I think without healing that and creating more of a balance between the sexes, we will never have balance globally. I feel like I am going deeper and deeper into this space where I came from that I barely understood.
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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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When I was like sixteen, I was a total chick I had big hair. I was seen as this attractive girl, and I would get all this attention. And then I just cut off my hair, and I quit playing that game.
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I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that gets problematic. It negates that things are always changing. Besides, it's hard to pin a label onto something that's always moving.
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I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.
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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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There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.
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Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people
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What doesn't bend, breaks.
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While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized.
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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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