Quotes from Ani DiFranco

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

and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.

I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind; I want somebody who has a tortured soul ...some of the time

I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.

Feminism is not only for women It's something everyone can participate in, and evolve together, as the first step in the right direction. I see feminism as a tool to achieve that balance and peace.

It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet.

I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.

Love isn't over when the sheets are stained.

I'm pretty much a workaholic, but when you're doing what you love it's hard to think of a reason to stop.

There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.

I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

My parents split up when I was young, and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.

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.

The bathroom mirror has not budged, the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff they say and looks me in the eye- says do you prefer the easy way? No? Well ok then, dont cry.

I fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change.

As any mom knows, having a baby is an extremely creative act and to love and create a baby, it's on par with any other creative act that we could come up with.

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

I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.

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

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.

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.

You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.