Ani Difranco quote: "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."

Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have ...
ANI DIFRANCO

I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe eac...
ANI DIFRANCO

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

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.
ANI DIFRANCO

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own hist...
ANI DIFRANCO

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
ANI DIFRANCO

i smoke and i drinkand every time i blink i have a tiny dreambut as bad as i am i'm proud of the fac...
ANI DIFRANCO

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

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

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

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.
ANI DIFRANCO

Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know...
ANI DIFRANCO

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they a...
ANI DIFRANCO

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call ...
ANI DIFRANCO

and half of learning to play is learning what not to play
and she's learning the spaces she lea...
ANI DIFRANCO

Coolest f-word ever deserves a fucking shout! I mean, why can't all decent men and women call themse...
ANI DIFRANCO

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to be...
ANI DIFRANCO

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affec...
ANI DIFRANCO

Feminism is not only for women It's something everyone can participate in, and evolve together, ...
ANI DIFRANCO

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've a...
ANI DIFRANCO

I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.
ANI DIFRANCO

I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's...
ANI DIFRANCO

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for tee...
ANI DIFRANCO

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You hav...
ANI DIFRANCO

These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual t...
ANI DIFRANCO

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

I did a lot of work with myself over the course of being pregnant and the first few months of being ...
ANI DIFRANCO

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.
ANI DIFRANCO

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

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not tryi...
ANI DIFRANCO

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbor...
ANI DIFRANCO

I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever he...
ANI DIFRANCO

Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, b...
ANI DIFRANCO

So show a little inspiration/ show a little spark/ show the world a little act when you show it your...
ANI DIFRANCO

Strangers are friends you have yet to meet
ANI DIFRANCO

I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know ...
ANI DIFRANCO

Take me home. Take me home and leave me there. Think I'm gonna cry, don't know why. Think I'm gonna ...
ANI DIFRANCO

My songs are just little letters to me.
ANI DIFRANCO

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right t...
ANI DIFRANCO

I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word 'marriage.' Do you really need ...
ANI DIFRANCO

If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me conf...
ANI DIFRANCO

It just all slips away so slowly, you don't even notice that you've lost a lot. I've been like one o...
ANI DIFRANCO

When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things ...
ANI DIFRANCO

Everytime I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their o...
ANI DIFRANCO

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because ...
ANI DIFRANCO

i smoke and i drink
and every time i blink
i have a tiny dream

but as bad as i am ...
ANI DIFRANCO

I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
ANI DIFRANCO

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that ...
ANI DIFRANCO

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the...
ANI DIFRANCO

I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a b...
ANI DIFRANCO

Here's a toast to all those people living on the pine ridge reservation under the stone cold gaze of...
ANI DIFRANCO

It don't take a weather man to look around and see the weather, Jeb said he'd deliver Florida folks ...
ANI DIFRANCO

Both hands... Now use both hands. Oh no, don't close your eyes.
ANI DIFRANCO

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse
ANI DIFRANCO

Time is not a thing that's ours to lose.
ANI DIFRANCO

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.
ANI DIFRANCO

After a while, I sorta start to think there is no such thing as private, people don't like to say th...
ANI DIFRANCO

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

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse, and I don't think that I'm better th...
ANI DIFRANCO

We're all citizens of the womb, before we subdivide into sexes and shades- this side, that side.
ANI DIFRANCO

I've got more than one membership to more than one club and I owe my life to the people that I love.
ANI DIFRANCO

Youth is beauty,Money is beauty, hell beauty is beauty sometimes
ANI DIFRANCO

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobod...
ANI DIFRANCO

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

We're all rehearsing for the presidency. I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman-ar...
ANI DIFRANCO

I'm queen of my own compost heap, and I'm getting used to the smell.
ANI DIFRANCO

What doesn’t bend breaks.
ANI DIFRANCO

I am watching your chest rise and falllike the tides of my life,and the rest of it alland your bones...
ANI DIFRANCO

I've got spots; I've got stripes, too.
ANI DIFRANCO

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and pain...
ANI DIFRANCO

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

Seems like everyone's an actor or an actor's best friend, I wonder what was wrong to begin with that...
ANI DIFRANCO

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if y...
ANI DIFRANCO

Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no...
ANI DIFRANCO

I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, a...
ANI DIFRANCO

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and sudd...
ANI DIFRANCO

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

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.
ANI DIFRANCO

I like you, but I know you don't know it. I like you so much, I talk to everyone but you. And I wond...
ANI DIFRANCO

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the win...
ANI DIFRANCO

What kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties, or the ground speed o...
ANI DIFRANCO

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

When I look down, I miss all the good stuff when I look up, I just trip over things
ANI DIFRANCO

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do somethi...
ANI DIFRANCO

Love was always the goal, and my point every step of the way was that nothing is wrong with love, no...
ANI DIFRANCO

Cuz take away our playstations and we are a third world nation under the thumb of some blue blood ro...
ANI DIFRANCO

A few years ago, when this space was much more raw, I did a little playing here, and I thought this ...
ANI DIFRANCO

As it began to balloon before our eyes, and more and more and more and more people and money were in...
ANI DIFRANCO

Maybe I'll live my whole life just getting by. Maybe I'll be discovered; maybe I'll be colonized. Yo...
ANI DIFRANCO

even when i look right at youi always just see throughand i always just see new thingsto admire abou...
ANI DIFRANCO

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
ANI DIFRANCO

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

Cause to me, it's, there's nothing that's personal and private, it's all universal. There's no exper...
ANI DIFRANCO

we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine
ANI DIFRANCO

The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's somet...
ANI DIFRANCO

They taught me different was wrong.
ANI DIFRANCO

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and ...
ANI DIFRANCO

All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it'...
ANI DIFRANCO

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.
ANI DIFRANCO

You broke me bodily.
The heart ain't the half of it,
And I'll never learn to laugh at it ANI DIFRANCO

Everyone is a fuckin' Napoleon.
ANI DIFRANCO

If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up
ANI DIFRANCO

We think federalism in the centre and the south is a door to weakening the Iraqi state and fuelling ...
ZAFIR ANI

... people, who always look for what they don’t have, don’t see what they have and dream of what...
ANI CHIBUKHCHYAN

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.

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