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I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.
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Love was always the goal, and my point every step of the way was that nothing is wrong with love, no matter what flavor it comes in.
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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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Like how could you do nothing, and say, 'I'm doing my best.' How could you take almost everything, and then come back for the rest? How could you beg me to stay, reach out your hands and plead, and then pack up your eyes and run away as soon as I agreed?
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You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.
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My life may not be something special But it's never been lived before.
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I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look at everything around me and vow to keep in mind that alla this is just someone's idea. It could have just as well been mine.
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Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life now.
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What I like way better than LGBT in terms of labeling sexuality actually is a scheme that comes to me from my friend Animal Prufrock wherein one is identified not by what they supposedly are but rather by what they are into. Which brings us to the terms hemosexual, shemosexual, and mosexual.
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Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.
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I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.
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I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.
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We are wise, wise women. We are giggling girls.
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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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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.
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TIME is not a thing that's ours to lose.
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The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society. It's raw. It's scary. But it gives us a place to work with.
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I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.
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Women who don't control their own reproductive rights are not free.
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And I was shocked, To see the mistakes of each generation, Will just fade like a radio station, If you drive out of range...
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