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Ani DiFranco

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 23, 1970

When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that 'just say it' attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private; it's all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life.

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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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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.

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

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

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Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

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Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

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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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I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.

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

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I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.

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

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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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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.

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There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.

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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.

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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.

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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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