Ani DiFranco citations

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“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.”

“When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand,
And I like to take up space just because I can,
And I use my dress to wipe up my drink.
I care less and less what people think.”

“I always feel I have to take a stand,
And there's always someone on hand
To hate me for standing there.
I always feel I have to open my mouth,
And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.”

“I am writing graffiti on your body.
I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.”

“We discovered we are both pleasantly furious half of the time,
When we're not just toeing the line.”

“She says “Do I know you?” I say “Well, no, not biblically,
But I've been waiting for you to come and talk to me.
I have been playing too many of those boy-girl games.”
She says, “Honey, you are safe here. This is a girl-girl thing.””

“Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber--
And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer.”

“Because 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.”

“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.”

“People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.”

“Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now.”

“And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range.”

“But what if no one's watching?
What if when we're dead, we are just dead?
What if there's no time to lose?
What if there's things we gotta do,
Things that need to be said?”

“I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music..”

“So I’ll walk the plank and I’ll jump with a smile.
If I’m gonna go down, I’m gonna do it with style,
and you won't see me surrender, you won't hear me confess,
'Cuz you've left me with nothing, but i've worked with less.”

“They're gonna be mad at us.
They're gonna be mad at me and you.
They're gonna be mad at us and all the things we wanna do.”

“I am looking for the holes,
The holes in your jeans
Because I want to know:
Are they worn out in the seat,
Or are they worn out in the knees?”

“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.”

“Life is a b movie.
It's stupid and it's strange,
A directionless story,
And the dialogue is lame.
But in the he said, she said,
Sometimes there's some poetry,
If you turn your back long enough,
And let it happen naturally.”

“So we're led by denial like lambs to the slaughter
Serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water
And the old farm road's a four-lane that leads to the mall
And our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.”

“I remember now how our bright spring green deepened.
With the years the seasons changed,
And we were lush as the underside of August.”