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Singer-songwriter

Ani DiFranco is an American singer-songwriter celebrated for her independent spirit and political activism. She began her music career in the early 1990s, releasing her first album at the age of 21. DiFranco's music often tackles social and political issues, and she is renowned for her poetic lyrics and acoustic guitar playing.

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“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.”

Want Kind Running Jokes Disappoint Lame

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

Knows Want I Can Hands Crime

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“What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to.”

Want Writing Doe Play Interesting Media Industry Independent Radio Albums Music Industry Something Interesting

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“My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy. I do believe. As men and women, together, I really long to feel my society evolve its understanding since we're one of the leaders in the f-word. I want us to grow our idea of feminism collectively and get both men and women involved in undoing patriarchy. It's huge. It's a huge job.”

“I like to be an inspiration and an example of the idea that you can be independent, and it's no problem, and you can pay your rent, and it's empowering, and it's great. And that's true, but it also takes a really long time, and you have to have a lot of patience and a lot of conviction in why you want to remain independent.”

Want Long Ideas Problem Inspiration Pay Example Long Time Independent Conviction Empowering No Problem Really Long

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“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”

Want Mind Stills Soul Purpose Pointlessness Tortured Souls

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“I just see a lot of people who are really terrified of the "f-word." A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists.”

People Want Young Feminist These Days Young Women Terrified

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“I see a lot of young female performers who do not call themselves feminist, but would certainly believe in their own right to self-determination, and wouldn't want anybody to stop them from becoming themselves. They just refuse to recognize the relationship between their lives and those of other women, or feel any solidarity there.”

Want Feels Believe Self Young Becoming Female Determination Feminist Refuse Performers Self Determination Solidarity

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“Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said.”

Want Looks Said Two Might Eye Turns Girl Causes Vision Ambition Eating Thirty Someday Flavor Starving Posters Peripheral Vision

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“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.”

Want Girl Pretty Girl

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“There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar open and nothing on TV. If you don't want to do too many drugs, you have to start bodily mutilation.”

Ifs Want America Night Certain Middle Tvs Drug Window Bars Injury Middle Of The Night Self Injury Mutilation Middle America

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

Ifs Want Challenges Bed Guitar

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“A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.”

Thinking Way Want Kind Young Girl Feminism Worst Fashion Feminist These Days Young Women Girl Power Hideous Benign Fads

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

Want Birth Blessed

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“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”

Ifs Knows Way Want Made Soul Eye Asks Window Glasses My Soul One Way Bother

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

Want Stills Today Relationship Decided Eternity

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“I cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless.”

Want Philosophy Names Call Me Shameless

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About the Author

Born: September 23, 1970
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 326

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Ani DiFranco: VersesRelated source material

Ani DiFranco: The Complete LyricsRelated source material

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