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We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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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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My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds my gaze The foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phase Just a phase.
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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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Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.
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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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I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.
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What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?
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We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's just the way it goes, better to be dusty than polished, like some store window mannequin, why don't you touch me where i'm rusty, let me stain your hands
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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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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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Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.
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Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other'.
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Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.
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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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Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.
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Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.
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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've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!
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