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I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people,
Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.
Love was always the goal, and my point every step of the way was that nothing is wrong with love, no matter what flavor it comes in.
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
I want somebody who has a tortured soul ... some of the time
God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past
Imagine you're a girl,
just trying to finally come clean,
knowing full well they'd prefer you
were dirty and smiling.
just trying to finally come clean,
knowing full well they'd prefer you
were dirty and smiling.
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
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.
Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.
People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.
I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.
Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life now.
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.'
At night when you're asleep, self-hatred's going to creep in. And you can blame it on the devil, the one who's bed you sleep in.
Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
-Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)
-Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)
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.
I am a thinned-skinned type. I am very sensitive, very emotional. Vulnerability is kind of always a part of my day.
When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless ...
And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range.
I would rather have these things weigh on my mind. At the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame, there must be a light of some kind.
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.
For me, the stronger ground I have in my personal life, then the more will I have to fight the good fight.
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.
A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.
I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.
It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.
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.
It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet.
My thighs have been involved in many accidents
and now i can't get insured
and i don't need to be lured by you
and now i can't get insured
and i don't need to be lured by you
But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.
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
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.
Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.
First decide what you got to do, then go out and do it. All we can do is to see each other through it.
And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.
Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.
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?