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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.
Ani DiFranco
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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.
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Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.
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spring is super in the supermarkets and the strawberries prance and glow never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless as strawberries go meanwhile wild things are not for sale anymore than they are for show so i'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty it takes more than eyes to know
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If you don't live what you sing about, your mirror is gonna fade.
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If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.
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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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I'm an all powerful amazon warrior, not just some sniveling girl.
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I am still praying for revolution.
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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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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
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The world owes us nothing we owe each other the world.
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I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
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Feminism is not only for women It's something everyone can participate in, and evolve together, as the first step in the right direction. I see feminism as a tool to achieve that balance and peace.
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I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.
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My main tactic is to focus on the people I respect. The people I think are great people. Do I have their respect? Do I have their support? If the answer is yes, then I'm doing ok.
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I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.'
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Second Wave feminism started with consciousness-raising groups, which sounds big but it's really just house parties. Women getting together and saying, You feel this way?! Me too! Hanging out is consciousness-raising.
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And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.
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I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.
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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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