My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here for forty-three years, it's, like, whoa, there is just so much more to do, other than become myself. I'm still talking about it. I still drop the P-word, "patriarchy," on unsuspecting people in everyday conversations.
Ani DiFrancoAnd thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.
Ani DiFrancoThey see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say itโs not murder itโs a metaphor.
Ani DiFrancoAll the decent people, male and female, are feminists. The only people who are not feminists are those who believe that women are inherently inferior or undeserving of the respect and opportunity afforded men. Either you are a feminist or you are a misogynist. There is no box marked "other."
Ani DiFrancoAnd this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.
Ani DiFranco