Ani DiFranco
I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.Collection: Mean
Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other'.Collection: Feminist
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.Collection: Heart
Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.Collection: Work
What bugs me is that you believe what you're saying. What bothers me is that you don't know how you feel. What scares me is that while you're telling me stories, you actually believe that they are real.Collection: Real
I love my country, By which I mean, I am indebted joyfully, To all the people throughout its history, Who have fought the government to make right, Where so many cunning sons and daughters, Our foremothers and forefathers, Came singing through slaughter, Came through hell and high water, So that we could stand here, And behold breathlessly the sight, How a raging river of tears, Cut a grand canyon of light... Why can't all decent men and women, Call themselves feminists? Out of respect, For those who fought for this...Collection: Country
The minute my child was born, I was reborn as a feminist. It's so incredible what women can do... birthing naturally, as most women do around the globe, is a superhuman act. You leave behind the comforts of being human and plunge back into being an animal.Collection: Children
I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.Collection: Feminism
I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.Collection: Writing
Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now.Collection: Together
And I was shocked, To see the mistakes of each generation, Will just fade like a radio station, If you drive out of range...Collection: Mistake
I know men are delicate origami creatures who need women to unfold them, hold them when they cry. But I am tired of being your savior and I am tired of telling you why.Collection: Tired
It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet.Collection: Regret
You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today.Collection: Relationship
The old farm roads a four lane that leads to the mall, and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.Collection: Dream
I noticed with older songs that I perform that I'm coming from a different place with them now...it mutates the vibe and even the meaning of the same words when you have a different spirit, if the person singing is different. I like that, to be able to sing an emotionally wrought song from a more centered place, or to sing an eager, youthful song from a more experienced place. It kind of colors the songs differently, and it keeps them fresh.Collection: Song
I'm an all powerful amazon warrior, not just some sniveling girl.Collection: Girl
I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look at everything around me and vow to keep in mind that alla this is just someone's idea. It could have just as well been mine.Collection: Children
If you think you know what I'm doing wrong well you're gonna have to get in line.Collection: Thinking
I fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change.Collection: Love
My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to the page...that way was kind of intimidating to me, yet intriguing, to try to reflect the rhythms and connotations and emotions that you can deliver, speaking-wise, on a page.Collection: Wise
It don't take a weather man to look around and see the weather, Jeb said he'd deliver Florida folks and boy did he ever, and we hold these truths to be self evident number one George W Bush is not president. Number two America isn't a true democracy. And number three the media is not fooling me.Collection: Men
Birth is the epicenter of women's powerCollection: Pregnancy
I was supposed to be cool about this, yeah, I remember - cool was the plan. Tried to keep it all under wraps, but the wraps kept going slack. I keep turning round, I keep coming back.Collection: Fall
I used to be a superhero; no one could touch me, not even myself. You are like a phone booth I somehow stumbled into, and now look at me - I am just like everybody else.Collection: Fall
You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.Collection: Love
When everything else seems unclear, at least I'll know I do it for the joy it brings.Collection: Life
I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seenCollection: Offering
and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.Collection: Running
If more people were screamin', I could relax.Collection: People
For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl...anticipate.Collection: Girl
and 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 and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying backCollection: Girl
Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.Collection: Treats
I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.Collection: Sleep
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.Collection: Girl
I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloofCollection: Art
If you don't live what you sing about, your mirror is gonna fade.Collection: Mirrors
You broke me bodily. The heart ain't the half of it, And I'll never learn to laugh at it In my good natured way. In fact, I'm laughing less in general, But I learned a lot at my own funeral. And I knew you'd be the death of me, So I guess that's the price I pay.Collection: Death
I make such a good statistic, somebody should study me now; somebody's gotta be interested in how I feel, just cause I'm here, and I'm real.Collection: Real
a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earnedCollection: Order
Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.Collection: Art
I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.Collection: Silence
We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.Collection: Philosophy
A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.Collection: Fun
Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.Collection: Happy Life
Lying in bed, you know, you don't seem so tall.Collection: Sex
Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.Collection: Smile
I just hope it was okay, I know it wasn't perfect, I hope in the end we can laugh and say it was all worth it.Collection: Life