“ And half of learning to play is learning what not to playand she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to sayand she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her movesand m… Ani DiFranco
“ Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society. Ani DiFranco
“ I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap. Ani DiFranco
“ I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it… Ani DiFranco
“ Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero. Ani DiFranco
“ I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to… Ani DiFranco
“ Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. -Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle) Ani DiFranco
“ Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance. Ani DiFranco
“ A lesson must be livedin order to be learnedand the clarity to see and stop this nowthat is what i've earned Ani DiFranco
“ 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
“ I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kin… Ani DiFranco
