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I know men are delicate origami creatures who need women to unfold them, hold them when they cry. But I am tired of being your savior and I am tired of telling you why.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen
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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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The world is my oyster. The road is my home. And I know that I'm better off Alone.
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I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.
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I'm aware enough, I guess, of American labor history.
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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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For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl...anticipate.
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Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!
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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 can jump ship and swim-- that the ocean will hold me, that there's got to be more than this boat I'm in.
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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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Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
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But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.
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I did a lot of work with myself over the course of being pregnant and the first few months of being pregnant. It's nice, the pace of being pregnant it gives you a long time to not just germinate a baby but germinate the mother that you're gonna be.
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Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
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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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These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound.
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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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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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