"You've always got those dark sunglasses covering up your face, but if you promise to take them off, I promise I won't squander your gaze. I will be picturesque, I will be nice." - Ani DiFranco 'Loom'
"there's many who've turned out their porch lights, just so I would think they were not home; and hid in the dark of their windows til I'd passed and left them alone." - Ani DiFranco, '32 flavors'
"and I think he does not hear what I'm saying; he's just looking at my eight by ten and wondering about the part that was left out. 'does she have a body that will really draw them in?'" - Ani DiFranco, 'the next big thing'
"steel toed they walk, and I'm wondering why this fear of men ... maybe it's because I'm hungry, and like a baby I'm dependent on them to feed me." - Ani DiFranco, 'the slant'
"I was a long time coming; I'll be a long time gone. you've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long." - Ani DiFranco, 'willing to fight'
"If you're not angry, you're just stupid -- or you don't care. How else can you react when you know something's so unfair?" - Ani DiFranco, 'out of range'
"You give me that look that's like laughing with liquid in your mouth; like you're choosing between choking, and spitting it all out." - Ani DiFranco, 'falling is like this'
"and I am looking forward to looking back on these days, when on every corner someone holds a sign that says, 'I'm homeless, I'm hungry and I have AIDS.'" - Ani DiFranco, 'on every corner'
"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'
"everything i do is judged, and they mostly get it wrong. but oh well 'cuz the bathroom mirror has not budged, and the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff that they say." - Ani DiFranco, 'joyful girl'
"just lay yourself on the line, and I might lay myself down by you. but don't sit behind your eyes and wait for me to surprise you." - Ani DiFranco, 'asking too much'
"I wonder what you look like, under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like, when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have, when we're not pretending." - Ani DiFranco, 'work your way out'