Ani DiFranco Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Positivity #Trying #Just Do It

“I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Strength #Differences #Diversity

“I know my mind is made of matter but I need to know exactly what is the matter at it's core? Because my heart is just a muscle and simply put, it's sore.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Heart #Sadness #Mind

“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...”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Sound #Looks #Wonder

“I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Beauty #Moving #Causes

“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 know, just ask”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Eye #Glasses #Soul

“Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Heartless #Chalk

“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.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Years #Orange #Individuality

“My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Inspiring #Determination #Self

“I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Mirrors #Able #Faces

“Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Faces #Mystery #Stranger

“I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Inspirational #Needs #Hold Me

“Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Feminist #Sexist #Boxes

“I believe the act of giving birth to be the single most miraculous thing a human being can do and it is surely the moment when a lot of women finally understand the depth of their power. You think it can’t possibly be done, you think you can’t possibly take the pain, and then you do-—and afterward you look at yourself in a whole new way. If you can do that, you can do anything.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Pain #Believe #Thinking

“Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Life #Art #Inspire

“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...”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Children #Animal #Feminist

“I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Way #Causes #Missions

“We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Teacher #Pain #Views

“Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Jobs #Nice #Sleep

“I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Fighting #Rolling #Occupy Movement

“God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Girl #Hatred #Secret

“Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Love #Music #Piano

“Taken out of context I must seem so strange.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Honesty #Taken #Strange

“I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Mean #Connections #Punk

“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 that fought for this?”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Country #Daughter #Mean

“Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Stars #Rocks #Fans

“I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Relationship #Funny Relationship #Bad 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.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Eye #Mirrors #Looks

“Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#Wall #Blow #Wind

“The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.”
-- Ani DiFranco

#World