"I am telling you I'm different than you think I am." - ani difranco, '1,000,000'
"I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl, no I want to be more than a pretty girl." - ani difranco, 'not a pretty girl'
"I am not an angry girl, but it seems like I've got everyone fooled." - ani difranco, 'not a pretty girl'
"I am not a pretty girl; that is not what I do. I ain't no damsel in distress, and I don't need to be rescued." - ani difranco, 'not a pretty girl'
"i wish i didn't have this nervous laugh. i wish i didn't say half the stuff i say. i wish i could just learn to cover my tracks; i guess i'm not concerned about getting away." - ani difranco, 'light of some kind'
"'cause every time i try to hold my tongue, it slips like a fish from a line." - ani difranco, 'light of some kind'
"maybe I'll live my whole life just getting by. maybe I'll be discovered, maybe I'll be colonized." - ani difranco, 'cradle and all'
"last night's underwear in my back pocket, sure sign of the morning after." - ani difranco, 'cradle and all'
"I could wake up screaming sometimes, but I don't. I could step off the end of this pier, but I've got shit to do." - ani difranco, 'tiptoe'
"it's a long long road -- it's a big big world. we are wise 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." - ani difranco, 'if he tries anything'
"some chick says, 'thank you for saying all the things I never do.' I say, 'the thanks I get is to take all the shit for you.'" - ani difranco, 'face up and sing'
"I leave for a living." - ani difranco, 'how have you been'
"I got a face like a limp handshake; hair like an accident scene. I've been waking up slowly, savoring the same old dream." - ani difranco, 'hell yeah'
"we barely have time to react in this world let alone rehearse. and I don't think I'm better than you, but I don't think that I'm worse." - ani difranco, 'letter to a john'
"and I try to draw the line, but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time." - ani difranco, 'out of range'
"I don't know who you were expecting, probably some bitch who does not budge with eyes the size of snow. I may get pissed off sometimes, but you seem like the type to hold a grudge, and in the end, I just let go..." - ani difranco, 'buildings and bridges'
"guess I came out here to see some stuff for myself. I mean, why leave the telling up to everybody else?" - ani difranco, 'god's country'
"state trooper thinks I drive too fast, pulled me over to tell me so. I say, 'out here on the prarie, any speed is too slow.'" - ani difranco, 'god's country'
"most people like to talk a lot; including you. you know there isn't much i have to say, that i wouldn't rather just shut up and do." - ani difranco, 'outta me, onto you'
"this is who I am, what I do, and what I say. if you like it, let it be -- if you don't, please do the same." - ani difranco, 'pick yer nose'
"they wanna take me out to dinner, think I'm a bitch if I don't go. seems like the people who actually like me, won't allow me to say no." - ani difranco, 'pick yer nose'
"I think shy is boring; I think depressed is too. I think pretty is nice, but I'd rather see something new." - ani difranco, 'pick yer nose'
"tell me again, what did I do? why are you scared of me?" - ani difranco, 'pick yer nose'
"'cause you know I'm only five foot two, and I'm giggly wiggly." - ani difranco, 'pick yer nose'
"what is it about me that offends?" - ani difranco, 'pick yer nose'
"how come I can pick my friends, but not my enemies?" - ani difranco, 'pick yer nose'
"for every lie I unlearn, I learn something new." - ani difranco, 'my i.q.'
"I'm learning to laugh as hard as I can listen, 'cause silence is violence." - ani difranco, 'my i.q.'
"I sing sometimes like my life is at stake, 'cause you're only as loud as the noises you make." - ani difranco, 'my i.q.'
"I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own. I got highways for stretch marks. see where I've grown?" - ani difranco, 'my i.q.'
"when I was four years old, they tried to test my I.Q.; they showed me a picture of 3 oranges and a pear. they said, which one is different? it does not belong. they taught me different is wrong." - ani difranco, 'my i.q.'
"I understand your anger and your apathy. I think if I was you, you're who I'd be." - ani difranco, 'used to you'
"everything I do, I do for the first time." - ani difranco, 'born a lion'
"what's the big deal? get over it . . . relax; just 'cause I do up in your face what other people do behind your back." - ani difranco, 'born a lion'
"I'm not hurting anyone; I'm just telling my truth, and if there--if there is something wrong, then maybe there's something wrong with you." - ani difranco, 'born a lion'
"I got my vertebrae all stacked up as high as they go, but I still feel myself sliding from the earth that I know; so I excuse myself and leave the room, say my period came early -- but it's not a minute too soon." - ani difranco, 'blood in the boardroom'
"I never really go anywhere anyway, I just pass through from time to time." - ani difranco, 'back around'
"you know I live in a world full of hope, not a world full of hype. I ain't no saint, I help myself to what I need, but I help other people too -- y'know I sleep soundly." - ani difranco, 'egos like hairdos'
"I got friends all over this country; I got friends in other countries too; I got friends I haven't met yet; I got friends I never knew." - ani difranco, 'willing to fight'
"I think that it's absurd that you think I am the derelict daughter; I fight fire with words." - ani difranco, 'willing to fight'
"tell me who is your boogieman; that's who I will be. you don't have to like me for who I am, but we'll see what you're made of by what you make of me." - ani difranco, 'willing to fight'
"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." - ani difranco, 'willing to fight'
"I hope they all fall through, 'cause this is no joke to me; they don't fool me with their acts of sensitivity. they too shall pass just like everyone who's only here for my ass." - ani difranco, 'the waiting song'
"I don't ask -- I just empty my pockets and wait. it's not fate, it's just circumstance." - ani difranco, 'coming up'
"go ahead, ask me if I care. I got the answer here; I wrote it down somewhere. I just gotta find it -- I just gotta find it." - ani difranco, 'coming up'
"I just write about what I should have done; I just sing what I wish I could say, and hope somewhere some woman hears my music -- and it helps her through her day." - ani difranco, 'i'm no heroine'
"you think I am stronger; you think I walk taller than the rest; you think I'm usually wearing the pants just 'cause I rarely wear a dress." - ani difranco, 'i'm no heroine'
"I'm just riding the tide; nothing more, and it's bound to take me out some before it brings me back to shore." - ani difranco, 'circle of light'
"when you look in the mirror do you see visions of your past? I ain't got time for halfway -- I ain't got time for halfassed." - ani difranco, 'circle of light'
"when I look in the mirror, I see my days to come -- and my face is just a trace of where I'm coming from." - ani difranco, 'circle of light'
