Ani Difranco
Ani Difranco
Ani DiFrancois an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, songwriter and businesswoman. She has released more than 20 albums and is widely considered a feminist icon. DiFranco has received positive feedback from critics for much of her career...
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth23 September 1970
CityBuffalo, NY
fighting occupy-movement needs
I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!
thinking
If you turn on the TV, you're going to get a certain palate, and if you go looking underneath the surface, there's a whole lot of stuff there that I think a lot of our generation would be really interested in.
missing stuff looks
When I look down, I miss all the good stuff And when I look up, I just trip over things...
girl wise evil
We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.
believe thinking roots
I sincerely believe patriarchy to be at the root of all of our social diseases and feminism, it's antidote, to be a prerequisite to peace on earth. feminism provides an alternative way of thinking and structuring things that focuses on and prioritizes relationships and de-emphasizes hierarchy, separation and domination.
fundamentals disease imbalance
The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy.
children animal feminist
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...
way causes groove
I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.
eye glasses soul
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
believe people feminist
I just don't know any other word than "feminist" that describes a person who believes women are people.
beauty moving causes
I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
looks sound wonder
I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending...
teacher pain hands
We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.
independent writing media
What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to.