Ani DiFranco Quotes

Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

I have to have some of my voice because I have my own experiences that I lived through.

I don't find myself intriguing.

I think I see myself differently than most people see me.

I never felt like an Amanda.

Binaries aside, we are the products of our relationships with our identities - cities we have built, bodies we have embraced, kindred souls we've cherished, our memories, our dreams, the fears we hide, the pain we hold - identities that cannot be reduced to a collection of labels.

My identity will always inform my experience and shape my perception. But I am an unremarkable person.

I am how I am. I cannot explain it well, but I don't feel the nicest person, on the football pitch or in life, I'm just myself.

It took a long time to understand why people were so interested in me, but I assumed it was because my wonderful husband had done a lot of wonderful work leading up to our marriage and our relationship. But then, over the years, you see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well. People make a lot of money out of you.

Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching: 'Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?

So much of how you look at yourself in the mirror reflects how you feel about yourself, and how you comport yourself.

You live your life between your ears.

If the only vision we have of ourselves comes from the social mirror - from the current social paradigm and from the opinions, perceptions, and paradigms of the people around us - our view of ourselves is like the reflection in a crazy mirror room at the carnival.

I always have a hard time describing myself.

My self encompasses a lot of different things.

I think of myself as a complete person, not just a football player and athlete.

I'm interested in how we understand ourselves in our relatioships and how we define ourselves.

I'm very self-aware.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

I don't find myself that interesting as a human being, so I don't really think that much of what I say or do warrants being recorded.

Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves.