Ani Pachen Quotes

So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility. ~ Ani DiFranco

At one time, we all were Gods. ~ Bjorn Street

There's a paradox in every paradigm. ~ Ani DiFranco

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. ~ Ani DiFranco

What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored? ~ Ani DiFranco

The world is my oyster.
The road is my home.
And I know that I'm better off
Alone. ~ Ani DiFranco

Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime. ~ Ani DiFranco

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. ~ Ani DiFranco

Ani l'dodi, ve dodi li. I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine. ~ Steph Campbell

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

They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie ... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by. ~ Ani DiFranco

You broke me bodily.
The heart ain't the half of it,
And I'll never learn to laugh at it
In 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. ~ Ani DiFranco

I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried. ~ Ani DiFranco

I'm not one of those people who has an act. ~ Ani DiFranco

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof ~ Ani DiFranco

Ani saw herself clearly in that moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning - a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog, a broken mare. ~ Shannon Hale

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 ... ~ Ani DiFranco

If you get caught with your pants down, take 'em off. ~ Ani DiFranco

Because the world owes me nothing, and we owe each other the world. ~ Ani DiFranco

When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you're trying to figure out where your next meal is coming from, you can't go march on Washington. ~ Ani DiFranco

I still define myself by the places that I've been. ~ Ani DiFranco

Jenn: Do you love him?
Ani: Yeah, I do.
Jenn: Then you can forgive him. It's not worth it to let love slip through your hands. ~ Cheyenne McCray

I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that gets problematic. It negates that things are always changing. Besides, it's hard to pin a label onto something that's always moving. ~ Ani DiFranco

If you're not angry, then you're just stupid, you don't care. How else can you react when something's so unfair? ~ Ani DiFranco

All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question. ~ Ani DiFranco

We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate. ~ Ani DiFranco

I am not an angry girl, but it seems I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger and not to their own fear. Imagine you're a girl just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they prefer you dirty and smiling. ~ Ani DiFranco

When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand, And I like to take up space just because I can, And I use my dress to wipe up my drink. I care less and less what people think. ~ Ani DiFranco

We are wise, wise women. We are giggling girls. ~ Ani DiFranco

Love sets fire to your schedule, And then calls an end to time. ~ Ani DiFranco

Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now. ~ Ani DiFranco

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves. ~ Ani DiFranco

Squint your eyes and look closer
I'm not between you and your ambition
I am a poster girl with no poster
I am thirty-two flavors and then some
And I'm beyond your peripheral vision
So you might want to turn your head
Cause someday you might find you're starving
and eating all of the words you said. ~ Ani DiFranco

Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar. ~ Ani DiFranco

I found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right ~ Ani DiFranco

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went. ~ Ani DiFranco

I cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless. ~ Ani DiFranco

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

I build each one of my days out of hope
and I give that hope your name

'cause I know there is strength
in the differences between us
and I know there is comfort
where we overlap

come here
stand in front of the light
stand still
so I can see your sillouette
I hope
you have got all night
'cause I'm not done looking,
no, I'm not done looking yet ~ Ani DiFranco

At night when you're asleep, self-hatred's going to creep in. And you can blame it on the devil, the one who's bed you sleep in. ~ Ani DiFranco