I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous. Ani DiFranco More Quotes by Ani DiFranco More Quotes From Ani DiFranco 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 intense humility needs I'm the color me happy girl, Miss live and let live. And when they're out for blood, I always give. Ani DiFranco girl philosophy blood How come I can pick my ears, but not my nose? Who made up that rule anyway? How can you say that's the way it is, that's just the way it goes, why don't you decide fore yourself what you can do? Ani DiFranco social-taboos ears noses Lying in bed, you know, you don't seem so tall. Ani DiFranco bed lying sex [Amy Ray and I] both have this part of our brain that makes us think that everybody should and will be nice and friendly and forthcoming. And then we're completely disillusioned. We have all these grand plans. One of them is the Rolling Thunder Pussy Revue. There's all these women's festivals going on this summer, and we don't think they're as adventurous as they could be. Lilith Fair-right away, by the name, you know they aren't pushing the envelope hard enough. Ani DiFranco nice summer thinking There's a crowd of people harbored in each person There are so many roles that we play. Ani DiFranco roles play people I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options. Ani DiFranco like-you mean thinking In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth. Ani DiFranco birth men world Feel free to listen, feel free to stare. Ani DiFranco staring feels philosophy Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation. Ani DiFranco explanation play world We've got ego's like hairdos. Ani DiFranco hairdos explanation ego Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice. Ani DiFranco media voice art The old farm roads a four lane that leads to the mall, and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall. Ani DiFranco dream reality fall Stepped out into the cold, collar high, under the slate gray sky. The air was smoking and the streets were dry, and I wasn't joking when I said goodbye. Ani DiFranco air sky goodbye No one's gonna sympathize when we crash, they'll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask. Ani DiFranco crash asks politics I'll walk the plank and I'll jump with a smile, cause if I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. Ani DiFranco style causes walks I cannot name this, I cannot explain this, and I really don't want to so just call me shameless. Ani DiFranco names want philosophy I have earned my disillusionment. Ani DiFranco disillusionment philosophy I would rather have these things weigh on my mind. At the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame, there must be a light of some kind. Ani DiFranco tunnels light philosophy Subtract out the impact and the fall is all you get. So here's two beers to remember why and three more to forget. Ani DiFranco beer two fall
