Second Wave feminism started with consciousness-raising groups, which sounds "big" but it's really just house parties. Women getting together and saying, "You… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Freedom and democracy, That's the word from Washington every day. Put America to sleep with warm milk and clichés, And people are… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Love was always the goal, and my point every step of the way was that nothing is wrong with love, no matter… — Ani Difranco Copy Share Image
Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
What I like way better than LGBT in terms of labeling sexuality actually is a scheme that comes to me from my… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
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… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
we can't afford to do anyone harm because we owe them our lives each breath is recycled from someone else's lungs our… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
How come I can pick my ears, but not my nose? Who made up that rule anyway? How can you say that's… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I love to exercise my creativity in many ways but as each year of specialization goes by I feel further and further… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I sincerely believe patriarchy to be at the root of all of our social diseases and feminism, it's antidote, to be a… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it! — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road, I guess that's what they call character, I guess that's… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
My parents split up when I was young, and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
The bathroom mirror has not budged, the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff they say and looks… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
We need a radically truthful way to acknowledge reproductive freedom. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile, cause if I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I can jump ship and swim-- that the ocean will hold me, that there's got to be more than this boat I'm in. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
God help you if you are an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the… — Ani Difranco Copy Share Image
I cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
