Ani DiFranco: Trending quotes (page 2)

“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…”

“i do it for the joy it brings
because i'm a joyful girl
because the world owes me nothing
and we owe each other the world”

“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.”

“If more people were screamin', I could relax.”

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

“I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof”

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

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

“For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl… anticipate.”

“If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up”

“The bathroom mirror has not budged, the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff they say and looks me in the eye- says do you prefer the easy way? No? Well ok then, dont cry.”

“fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows”

“Everyone is a fuckin' Napoleon.”

“… I try to laugh at whatever life brings…”

“a lesson must be lived
in order to be learned
and the clarity to see and stop this now
that is what i've earned”

“There's a paradox in every paradigm.”

“I've played the powerless in too many dark scenes. I was blessed with a birth and a death and I guess I just want some say in between”

“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.”

“and I try
to draw the line
but it ends up running down the middle of me
most of the time.”