Top 200 Ani DiFranco Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “You broke me bodily. The heart ain’t the half of it, And I’ll never learn to laugh at it In my good natured way. In fact, I’m laughing less in general, But I learned a lot at my own funeral. And I knew you’d be the death of me, So I guess that’s the price I pay.”

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52. “A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.”

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53. “I don’t care if they eat me alive, I’ve got better things to do then survive.”

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54. “Birth is the epicenter of women’s power.”

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55. “We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we’re pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.”

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56. “I’ll walk the plank and I’ll jump with a smile, cause if I’m gonna go down I’m gonna do it with style.”

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57. “Emptiness has its solace in that there’s nothing left to take.”

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58. “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.”

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59. “When I look down, I miss all the good stuff And when I look up, I just trip over things...”

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60. “Don’t treat me like I am something that happened to you.”

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61. “Someday you’re going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said.”

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62. “I am not a pretty girl. I don’t want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.”

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

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64. “If you don’t ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -.”

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65. “Time is not a thing that’s ours to lose.”

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66. “If you want to challenge the system, don’t go to bed with it.”

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67. “I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.”

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68. “I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.”

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69. “I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when I bring the songs to people on stage, it’s very joyous.”

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70. “I’m pretty much a workaholic, but when you’re doing what you love it’s hard to think of a reason to stop.”

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71. “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.”

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72. “I’d rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.”

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73. “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.”

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74. “Those who sit furthest from the center of power, see it the clearest.”

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75. “People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything’s cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.”

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76. “I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.”

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77. “To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do.”

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78. “I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands and say ‘This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can.’”

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79. “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.”

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80. “You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It’s kind of like our running joke but it’s really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.”

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81. “We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.”

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

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83. “I just hope it was okay, I know it wasn’t perfect, I hope in the end we can laugh and say it was all worth it.”

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

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85. “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.”

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86. “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.”

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87. “I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you’re not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we’re not pretending...”

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88. “And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.”

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89. “You rhapsodize about beauty, and my eyes glaze. Everything that I love is ugly. I mean really, you would be amazed. Just do me a favor, it’s the least that you can do, just don’t treat me like I am something that happened to you.”

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90. “Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don’t talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it’s the superstructure of human society.”

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91. “You’ve got your whole life to do something, And that’s not very long. So why don’t you give me a call When you’re willing to fight For what you think is real, For what you think is right.”

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92. “I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof.”

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93. “Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.”

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94. “The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don’t bother looking into my eyes if there’s something you want to know, just ask.”

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95. “When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you’re gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.”

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96. “I’m recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.”

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97. “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.”

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98. “Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.”

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99. “Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.”

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100. “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.”

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