"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 so put me down punk. Maybe you'd prefer a maiden fair, isn't there a kitten stuck up in a tree somewhere?"
-Ani DiFranco

"People in general are cruel to one another. The only way to have fun to them is to make fun of someone. I hate that. Why can?t someone be different?why can?t someone be themselves without being made fun of? I hate society because of how they judge people and how everything is based on looks and shit. I?m sorry?but I?m not a jerk to others. So be nice or fuck yourself.?

"A woman is like a teabag-you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."
-Nancy Reagan

"I am strong because I believe in myself. I know who I am and what I can do. It doesn't matter what I look like, where I live, or who my friends are. What matters is the confidence that I carry within."
-Reebok

"You can't stop something that's inside of you."
-Bud in Pleasantville

"Accept everything about yourself--I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end--no apologies, no regrets."
-Clark Moustakas

"I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay."
-Madonna

"I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out."
-Elizabeth Wurtzel

"Nobody has known me, nobody has loved me, nobody has owned me, blow me away!"

"She's a perfect person, I hate the bitch."

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

"I was born to learn, to grow, to expand, to love, to create, to enjoy, to see the beauty in all things including myself. . .But I was NOT born to be perfect."

"I'm having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone's got to pay. I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall. You're so small, I feel fat 'cause you're so small, I don't feel anything."
-Jewel, "You're So Small"

"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

"Maybe I?ll live my whole life just getting by. Maybe I?ll be discovered; maybe I?ll be colonized. You could try to train me like a pet, you could try to teach me to behave, I?ll tell you that I haven?t learned it yet, I ain?t goona sit, I ain?t goona stay.?
-Ani DiFranco

"Life is a B Movie: it?s stupid and it?s strange, it?s a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the ?he said she said? sometimes there?s some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.?
-Ani DiFranco

"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 phoenix, and you dare to rise up from the ash, a thousand eyes will smolder you with jealousy, while you?re just flying past.?
-Ani DiFranco

"There isn?t much I have to say, that I wouldn?t rather just shut up and do.?
-Ani DiFranco

"We?re all citizens of the womb, before we subdivide into sexes and shades- this side, that side.?
-Ani DiFranco

"We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse, and I don't think that I'm better than you but I don't think that I'm worse. Women learn to be women, and men learn to be men, and I don't blame it all on you, but I don't want to be your friend"
-Ani DiFranco

"Maybe you don?t like your job, maybe you didn?t get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there?s no escape, there?s no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.?
-Ani DiFranco

"I'm the one who's got to die when it's time for me to die so let me live the way I want to."
-Jimi Hendrix

"They can't hurt you unless you let them."
-Everclear

"You are the bitch I've always wanted to be."

"...Women need men like fish need bikes..."