511 Quotes by Ani DiFranco

I’ve been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.

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.

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.

I’ve been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!

I used to be a superhero; no one could touch me, not even myself. You are like a phone booth I somehow stumbled into, and now look at me – I am just like everybody else.

There’s a paradox in every paradigm.

I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that’s exactly what happens.

I just hope it was okay, I know it wasn’t perfect, I hope in the end we can laugh and say it was all worth it.

I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands and say ‘This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can.’