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In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.
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I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.
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Well, it's really gratifying to me to have a stage and some bright lights and a microphone. They're tools and opportunities, and to be able to just pull somebody up on stage with me and point at them is a great feeling.
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Taken out of context I must seem so strange.
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I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.
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My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you're all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself?
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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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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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Change the narrative, change the laws.
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I still define myself by the places that I've been.
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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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I like to be an inspiration and an example of the idea that you can be independent, and it's no problem, and you can pay your rent, and it's empowering, and it's great. And that's true, but it also takes a really long time, and you have to have a lot of patience and a lot of conviction in why you want to remain independent.
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Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'
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You've already put more than enough energy into worry. That's all women have been allowed to do, historically.
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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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Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.
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I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
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I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.
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