511 Quotes by Ani DiFranco

You’ve got your whole life to do something, And that’s not very long. So why don’t you give me a call When you’re willing to fight For what you think is real, For what you think is right.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it’s very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

Maybe you don’t like your job, maybe you didn’t get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there’s no escape, there’s no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

I can jump ship and swim – that the ocean will hold me, that there’s got to be more than this boat I’m in.

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof.

Subtract out the impact and the fall is all you get. So here’s two beers to remember why and three more to forget.

No one’s gonna sympathize when we crash, they’ll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask.

You can’t start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

You’re trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.