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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.
Ani DiFranco
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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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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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Smile pretty and watch your back
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How come I can pick my ears, but not my nose? Who made up that rule anyway? How can you say that's the way it is, that's just the way it goes, why don't you decide fore yourself what you can do?
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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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Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.
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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 know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
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If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.
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Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.
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I did not design this game I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples and I am not afraid of snakes.
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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 four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong they taught me different was wrong.
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If a politician is running in your local community who's pro-choice, who's feminist in their thinking, get behind them. Send them some money! If you have no money but have time, lick stamps!
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[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.
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I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.
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It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that.
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As any mom knows, having a baby is an extremely creative act and to love and create a baby, it's on par with any other creative act that we could come up with.
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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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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.
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The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask
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