Ani DiFranco Quotes

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
Ani DiFranco

Life, Nice, Sleep

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.
Ani DiFranco

Woman, Become, Whatever

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.
Ani DiFranco

God, Girl, Pretty

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.
Ani DiFranco

Love, Trying, Tell

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
Ani DiFranco

History, Nothing, Friends

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.
Ani DiFranco

Life, Time, Long

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.
Ani DiFranco

Nothing, Down, Less

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Ani DiFranco

Love, Time, Place

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.
Ani DiFranco

Politics, Women, Power

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
Ani DiFranco

Morning, Art, Living

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
Ani DiFranco

Strength, Between, Comfort

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.
Ani DiFranco

Big, Seriously, Mistake

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.
Ani DiFranco

Different, Idea, Seems

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.
Ani DiFranco

Heart, Mine, Wear

I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.
Ani DiFranco

Long, Woman, Move

Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.
Ani DiFranco

Someone, Real, Here

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
Ani DiFranco

Death, Blessed, Between

If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same.
Ani DiFranco

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
Ani DiFranco

Beauty, Poetry, Try

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
Ani DiFranco

Love, Trying, Tell

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
Ani DiFranco

Hold, Tool, Weapon

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
Ani DiFranco

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'
Ani DiFranco

Either, Feminist, Box

I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.
Ani DiFranco

Care, Alive, Eat

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
Ani DiFranco

Famous, Rich, Able

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Nationality: American

Born: September 23, 1970

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