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Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.-- Ani Difranco
Maybe you can keep me from ever being happy, but you're not gonna stop me from having fun.-- Ani Difranco
In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.-- Ani Difranco
"Whenever I say something they find hard to hear /
they chalk it up to my anger and never to their own fear."-- Ani Difranco (Pretty Girl)
"Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant."-- Ani DiFranco
"We have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say, /
'cause if you're not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you're just in the way."-- Ani Difranco
When I look around I think this, this is good enough. And I try to laugh at whatever life brings.
Cuz when I look down I just miss all the good stuff and when I look up I just trip over things.-- Ani Difranco
"When I say "You sucked my brain out", the english translation is "I am in love with you, and it is no fun". But I don't use words like love, cuz words like that don't matter. But don't look so offended, you know you should be flattered."-- Ani Difranco
I speak without reservation from what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding that all people should have the right to offer their voice to the chorus whether the result is harmony or dissonance, the worldsong is a colorless dirge without the differences that distinguish us, and it is that difference which should be celebrated, not condemned.-- Ani Difranco
"Well, I'm not a religious person myself. I'm an atheist. I think religion serves a lot of different purposes in people's lives, and I can recognize the value of that, you know, the value of ceremony, the value of community, or even just having a forum to get together and talk about ideas, about morals--that's a cool concept. But then, of course, institutional religions are so problematic."-- Ani Difranco (on religion)
There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.-- Francis Bacon