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“Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.”

Ani DiFranco · Respect

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Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

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I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.

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