511 Quotes by Ani DiFranco

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.

The world is my oyster. The road is my home. And I know that I’m better off Alone.

Someone’s got to be interested in how I feel, just because I’m here and I’m real.

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.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there’s me.

There is no alternative. A Democrat is a Republican is a big businessman, and we’re all consumers instead of citizens. It just manifests in the culture, in the music, in the art. I feel a little panicky about it.

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.

All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it’s part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

I don’t like my language watered down, I don’t like my edges rounded off.