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1 " Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define. "
― Ani DiFranco
2 " If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up "
3 " I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through. "
4 " I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves. "
5 " 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 make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to proveshe crawls out on a limb and begins to build her homeand it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not aloneup up up up up up up points the spire of the steeplebut god's work isn't done by godit's done by people "
6 " Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define, but there you are, right there, in the meantime. "
― Ani DiFranco , Ani Difranco: The Complete Lyrics
7 " I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off. "
8 " We get a little further from perfection, each year on the road,I guess that's what they call character,I guess that's just the way it goes,better to be dusty than polished,like some store window mannequin,why don't you touch me where i'm rusty,let me stain your hands "
9 " I am not an angry girlBut it seems like I’ve got everyone fooledEvery time I say something they find hard to hearThey chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear "
10 " You broke me bodily.The heart ain't the half of it,And I'll never learn to laugh at itIn my good natured way.In fact, I'm laughing less in general,But I learned a lot at my own funeral.And I knew you'd be the death of me,So I guess that's the price I pay. "
11 " I mean, whatWhat if no one's watchingWhat if when we're deadWe are just deadI mean, whatWhat if it's just us down hereWhat if God is just an ideaSomeone put in your head "
12 " And she tried the high heels but she couldn't bring herself to prance. "
13 " 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) "
14 " a lesson must be livedin order to be learnedand the clarity to see and stop this nowthat is what i've earned "
15 " Everyone is a fuckin' Napoleon. "
16 " And what if there are no damsels in distress?What if I knew that, and I called your bluff?Don't you think every kitten figures out how to get down,whether or not you ever show up? "
17 " I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own. "
18 " For a girl, the fear of not being pretty is the fear of not being a valuable object, which is the fear of not being loved. It is a conflation that is instilled so early on and runs so deep that, even when you know it's a fear perpetrated by patriarchy, goaded by fashion magazines, and used to manipulate you into buying stuff, you still can't stop the way it affects you. Being a woke feminist doesn't mean you've overcome it, it just means you've learned to live with your perpetual self-loathing and your anger around it, too. "
― Ani DiFranco , No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir
19 " when you come to mecome to me with cakein your pocketcome to me nicelywith that soft kinda cakethat's mostly icingcome to me ready and rudebring me angel foodangel food "
20 " i could step off the end of this pier but i gotshit to do and an appointment on tuesdayto shed uninvited blood and tissuei'll miss you, i sayto the river to the waterto the son or daughteri thought better ofi could fall in love with jerseyat sunsetbut i leave the view to the ratsand tiptoe back "
