When everything else seems unclear, at least I'll know I do it for the joy it brings. Ani DiFranco More Quotes by Ani DiFranco More Quotes From Ani DiFranco I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between. Ani DiFranco birth blessed want If you like it, let it be, and if you don't please do the same. Ani DiFranco you-like-it please ifs Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real. Ani DiFranco feels-just real feels In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it. Ani DiFranco logical order reality There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do. Ani DiFranco shut-up I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it! Ani DiFranco looking-in-the-mirror feel-good mirrors Taken out of context I must seem so strange. Ani DiFranco strange honesty taken I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally. Ani DiFranco punk connections mean 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 fashion girl thinking I know men are delicate origami creatures who need women to unfold them, hold them when they cry. But I am tired of being your savior and I am tired of telling you why. Ani DiFranco tired sadness men and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back Ani DiFranco girl eye hatred I try to laugh at whatever life brings. Ani DiFranco trying laughing Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you. Ani DiFranco treats happened I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands. Ani DiFranco waiting sleep hands 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 girl eye ambition I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof Ani DiFranco aloof perfect art If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong - Ani DiFranco asks answers inspiring 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. Ani DiFranco youth culture thinking 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 sleep night sex We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction. Ani DiFranco chaos satisfaction philosophy