Ani Difranco Quotes

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

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.

Art is why I get up in the morning; my definition ends there. You know it doesn`t seem fair, that I`m living for something I can`t even define. And there you are right there, in the mean time.

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

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

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

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

There isn`t much I have to say, that I wouldn`t rather just shut up and do.

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.

If you like it, let it be, and if you don`t please do the same.

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.

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn`t.

We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I`m searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate.

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.

I don`t care if they eat me alive, I`ve got better things to do then survive.

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

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

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.

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

Men make angry music and it`s called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they`re angry and militant.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

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.

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

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

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

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.

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.

My songs are just little letters to me.

They taught me different was wrong.

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.

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.

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know `cause I`m like that a lot. You think everything`s ok, and it is . . . `till it`s not.

Coolest f-word ever deserves a fucking shout! I mean, why can`t all decent men and women call themselves feminists? Out of respect for those who fought for this. I mean, look around, we have this.

Life is a B Movie: it`s stupid and it`s strange, it`s a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the `he said she said` sometimes there`s some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.

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.

I can`t wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.

i smoke and i drink

Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I`m waiting for sleep.

Squint your eyes and look closer. I`m not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I`m beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head. `Cuz some day you are gonna get hungry, and eat all of the words you just said.