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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.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people.
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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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Then I show up steady ready and proud and I find I've forgotten how to talk out loud. Isn't it just like you to bring me to my knees?
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What bugs me is that you believe what you're saying. What bothers me is that you don't know how you feel. What scares me is that while you're telling me stories, you actually believe that they are real.
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What doesn't bend, breaks.
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Love isn't over when the sheets are stained.
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and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back
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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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If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.
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now the profile of our country looks a little less hard nosed / but that picket line persisted and that clinic's since been closed / they keep pounding their fists on reality hoping it will break / but I don't think there's a one of us leads a life free of mistakes
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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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Mostly, I stay out of social media conversations. But sometimes, they hunt me down and shoot at me anyway!
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There's a crowd of people harbored in each person There are so many roles that we play.
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In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.
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Someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said.
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