Ani DiFranco Quotes - Page 5

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.

We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.

I try to laugh at whatever life brings.

The way I play guitar is very, very hard and I bloody myself incredibly without the tape. And the nails are my picks.

How come I can pick my ears but not my nose?

We have to really be intentional right now about holding the media accountable, and taking back the discourse and terms of discussion. It's been hijacked.

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

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

My life may not be something special But it's never been lived before.

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?

I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

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?

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.

People talk about my image like I come in two dimensions, like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind, like what I happen to be wearing the day that someone takes my picture is my new statement for all womankind.

Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

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.

I love my country, By which I mean, I am indebted joyfully, To all the people throughout its history, Who have fought the government to make right, Where so many cunning sons and daughters, Our foremothers and forefathers, Came singing through slaughter, Came through hell and high water, So that we could stand here, And behold breathlessly the sight, How a raging river of tears, Cut a grand canyon of light... Why can't all decent men and women, Call themselves feminists? Out of respect, For those who fought for this...

I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

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.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.