Top 200 Ani DiFranco Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “I’m the color me happy girl, Miss live and let live. And when they’re out for blood, I always give.”

— Ani DiFranco

102. “In a man’s world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found – they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.”

— Ani DiFranco

103. “Lying in bed, you know, you don’t seem so tall.”

— Ani DiFranco

104. “You can’t start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.”

— Ani DiFranco

105. “Privilege is a headache, that you don’t know that you don’t have.”

— Ani DiFranco

106. “Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god’s work isn’t done by god it’s done by people.”

— Ani DiFranco

107. “Stepped out into the cold, collar high, under the slate gray sky. The air was smoking and the streets were dry, and I wasn’t joking when I said goodbye.”

— Ani DiFranco

108. “Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber – And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer.”

— Ani DiFranco

109. “I am getting nowhere with you and I can’t let you go and I cant get through.”

— Ani DiFranco

110. “Feel free to listen, feel free to stare.”

— Ani DiFranco

111. “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.”

— Ani DiFranco

112. “They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.”

— Ani DiFranco

113. “When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand, And I like to take up space just because I can, And I use my dress to wipe up my drink. I care less and less what people think.”

— Ani DiFranco

114. “Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.”

— Ani DiFranco

115. “You’ve decided to love me for eternity, I’m still deciding who I want to be today.”

— Ani DiFranco

116. “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.”

— Ani DiFranco

117. “There isn’t much I have to say, that I wouldn’t rather just shut up and do.”

— Ani DiFranco

118. “I used to be a superhero; no one could touch me, not even myself. You are like a phone booth I somehow stumbled into, and now look at me – I am just like everybody else.”

— Ani DiFranco

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

— Ani DiFranco

120. “I use my dress to wipe up my drink, I care less and less what people think.”

— Ani DiFranco

121. “There’s a crowd of people harbored in each person There are so many roles that we play.”

— Ani DiFranco

122. “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

123. “I always feel I have to take a stand, And there’s always someone on hand To hate me for standing there. I always feel I have to open my mouth, And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.”

— Ani DiFranco

124. “Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.”

— Ani DiFranco

125. “We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.”

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

— Ani DiFranco

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

— Ani DiFranco

128. “I know my mind is made of matter but I need to know exactly what is the matter at it’s core? Because my heart is just a muscle and simply put, it’s sore.”

— Ani DiFranco

129. “I’ve been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.”

— Ani DiFranco

130. “I don’t like my language watered down, I don’t like my edges rounded off.”

— Ani DiFranco

131. “Imagine you’re a girl, just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they’d prefer you were dirty and smiling.”

— Ani DiFranco

132. “We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that’s what they call character, I guess that’s just the way it goes, better to be dusty than polished, like some store window mannequin, why don’t you touch me where i’m rusty, let me stain your hands.”

— Ani DiFranco

133. “I’m sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.”

— Ani DiFranco

134. “Feminism is not only for women It’s something everyone can participate in, and evolve together, as the first step in the right direction. I see feminism as a tool to achieve that balance and peace.”

— Ani DiFranco

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

— Ani DiFranco

136. “I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.”

— Ani DiFranco

137. “Outside sleep’s open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.”

— Ani DiFranco

138. “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.”

— Ani DiFranco

139. “I love all those great ‘f’ words – feminism, folk music...”

— Ani DiFranco

140. “Now let’s get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can’t, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.”

— Ani DiFranco

141. “I don’t hate being compared with female musicians. I don’t mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women’s work.”

— Ani DiFranco

142. “If you like it, let it be, and if you don’t please do the same.”

— Ani DiFranco

143. “Virtue is relative at best, there’s nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.”

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144. “We are wise, wise women. We are giggling girls.”

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

— Ani DiFranco

146. “But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.”

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147. “You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change.”

— Ani DiFranco

148. “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

149. “And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range.”

— Ani DiFranco

150. “We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.”

— Ani DiFranco