Ani DiFranco Quotes - Page 9

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

Subtract out the impact and the fall is all you get. So here's two beers to remember why and three more to forget.

Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now.

And I was shocked, To see the mistakes of each generation, Will just fade like a radio station, If you drive out of range...

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.

All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

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.

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.

It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet.

You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today.

The old farm roads a four lane that leads to the mall, and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.

In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.

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

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

My songs are just little letters to me.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

I'm an all powerful amazon warrior, not just some sniveling girl.

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.

If you think you know what I'm doing wrong well you're gonna have to get in line.

I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.'

When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you're trying to figure out where your next meal is coming from, you can't go march on Washington.

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.

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

I did a lot of work with myself over the course of being pregnant and the first few months of being pregnant. It's nice, the pace of being pregnant; it gives you a long time to not just germinate a baby but germinate the mother that you're gonna be.

I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind; I want somebody who has a tortured soul ...some of the time