Ani DiFranco
It's not important to be defined, it's only important to use your time well.Collection: Life
Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by peopleCollection: People
In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.Collection: Men
Love sets fire to your schedule, And then calls an end to time.Collection: Fire
I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.Collection: Expression
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.Collection: Crazy
The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy.Collection: Fundamentals
I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.Collection: Inspirational
I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Eye
I try to laugh at whatever life brings.Collection: Laughing
When I was like sixteen, I was a total chick I had big hair. I was seen as this attractive girl, and I would get all this attention. And then I just cut off my hair, and I quit playing that game.Collection: Girl
[Amy Ray and I] both have this part of our brain that makes us think that everybody should and will be nice and friendly and forthcoming. And then we're completely disillusioned. We have all these grand plans. One of them is the Rolling Thunder Pussy Revue. There's all these women's festivals going on this summer, and we don't think they're as adventurous as they could be. Lilith Fair-right away, by the name, you know they aren't pushing the envelope hard enough.Collection: Summer
spring is super in the supermarkets and the strawberries prance and glow never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless as strawberries go meanwhile wild things are not for sale anymore than they are for show so i'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty it takes more than eyes to knowCollection: Spring
I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.Collection: Music
To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can doCollection: Two
Love was always the goal, and my point every step of the way was that nothing is wrong with love, no matter what flavor it comes in.Collection: Goal
I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured a very long spell (thirty plus years) of regressive thinking and hyper conservativism dominating our culture and national discourse. It necessitates risk taking and rule breaking by people in all walks of life to swing that pendulum back though.Collection: Thinking
I sincerely believe patriarchy to be at the root of all of our social diseases and feminism, it's antidote, to be a prerequisite to peace on earth. feminism provides an alternative way of thinking and structuring things that focuses on and prioritizes relationships and de-emphasizes hierarchy, separation and domination.Collection: Believe
When I look down, I miss all the good stuff And when I look up, I just trip over things.Collection: Missing
I am still praying for revolution.Collection: Revolution
Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.Collection: Heartless
I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.Collection: Army
I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.Collection: Thinking
But as bad as I am, I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seemCollection: Proud
Virtue is relative at best, there's nothing worse than a sunset when your driving due West.Collection: Philosophy
I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.Collection: War
And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.Collection: Fall
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.Collection: Thinking
When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.Collection: Music
[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.Collection: People
Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.Collection: Memories
Let's show them all how it's done, let's do it all imperfectly.Collection: Life
and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone up up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by peopleCollection: Integrity
When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.Collection: Chairs
A good brain ain't diddley, if you don't have the facts.Collection: Education
I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.Collection: New York
I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.Collection: Beauty
There's a crowd of people harbored in each person There are so many roles that we play.Collection: Play
They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by.Collection: Lying
We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.Collection: Girl
When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong; they taught me different was wrong.Collection: Years
I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.Collection: Sound
Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.Collection: Art
Love isn't over when the sheets are stained.Collection: Love
Smile pretty and watch your backCollection: Watches
Freedom and democracy, That's the word from Washington every day. Put America to sleep with warm milk and clichés, And people are expendable along the way.Collection: Sleep