Thinking Quotes by Ani DiFranco

I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever…

— Ani DiFranco

I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.

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You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to…

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If you think you know what I'm doing wrong well you're gonna have to get in line.

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We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

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I use my dress to wipe up my drink, I care less and less what people think.

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I'm pretty much a workaholic, but when you're doing what you love it's hard to think of a reason to stop.

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Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that…

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now the profile of our country looks a little less hard nosed / but that picket line persisted and that clinic's since…

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You've got your whole life to do something, And that's not very long. So why don't you give me a call When…

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I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that gets problematic.…

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One thing I do find in the "lost" generation or something is a kind of abhorrence of history, you know, like it's…

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All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and…

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My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to…

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One thing that Barack Obama promised, one thing that we all know we must do is evolve our industry and our technology…

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My main tactic is to focus on the people I respect. The people I think are great people. Do I have their…

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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…

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I feel like we need to understand feminism more as a tool to mediate, counteract, to ultimately defeat patriarchy and restore balance…

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I believe the act of giving birth to be the single most miraculous thing a human being can do and it is…

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I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured…

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Criticism is hard for me but people find hard to believe because they think I'm very tough, very strident, that I tell…

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I sincerely believe patriarchy to be at the root of all of our social diseases and feminism, it's antidote, to be a…

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I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I…

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It's the ground that we walk on, it's where we sit, it's the language that we use. It's a difficult undertaking, but…

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I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

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I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't…

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Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because…

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I think if we can't use the word feminist, if it's some kind of taboo or dirty word, or means you're ugly,…

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When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand, And I like to take up space just…

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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…

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I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word 'marriage.' Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian…

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When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you're trying…

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If you turn on the TV, you're going to get a certain palate, and if you go looking underneath the surface, there's…

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When I look around I think this, this is good enough; And I laugh at whatever life brings because when I look…

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If a politician is running in your local community who's pro-choice, who's feminist in their thinking, get behind them. Send them some…

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[Amy Ray and I] both have this part of our brain that makes us think that everybody should and will be nice…

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People who are just starting out are always sort of coming to me for advice as the example of "independent girl," and…

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Like a lot of people, I had this naive hope that Barack Obama would fix everything quickly. You know, the culture of…

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I think when a society has such a profoundly dark and awful evil such as slavery in its history, then it leaves…

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I really have been enjoying performing more lately than I have in a long time and you know, it's all about that…

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