Ani Difranco

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.

spring is super in the supermarkets and the strawberries prance and glow never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless as strawberries go meanwhile wild things are not for sale anymore than they are for show so i'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty it takes more than eyes to know

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.

and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back

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.

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

God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash _x000D_ a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past

we can't afford to do anyone harm because we owe them our lives each breath is recycled from someone else's lungs our enemies are the very air in disguise you can talk a great philosophy but if you can't be kind to people every day it doesn't mean that much to me it's the little things you do the little things you say it's the love you give along the way

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.'

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

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.

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other'.

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.

Like how could you do nothing,_x000D_ and say, 'I'm doing my best.'_x000D_ How could you take almost everything,_x000D_ and then come back for the rest?_x000D_ How could you beg me to stay,_x000D_ reach out your hands and plead,_x000D_ and then pack up your eyes and run away_x000D_ as soon as I agreed?

I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.

i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world