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We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
Composer
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Buffalo
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Angela Maria DiFranco
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I fear that Donald Trump will continue to be followed around by the media in its totality as he continues to rail against Hillary Clinton.
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The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal.
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The world owes us nothing we owe each other the world.
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It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way.
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I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.
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But as bad as I am, I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seem
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I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.
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The bathroom mirror has not budged, the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff they say and looks me in the eye- says do you prefer the easy way? No? Well ok then, dont cry.
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At night when you're asleep, self-hatred's going to creep in. And you can blame it on the devil, the one who's bed you sleep in.
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Too much is how I love you, but too well is how I know you.
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Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.
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The old farm roads a four lane that leads to the mall, and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.
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Imagine you're a girl, just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they'd prefer you were dirty and smiling.
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I use my dress to wipe up my drink, I care less and less what people think.
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I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.
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