Ani DiFranco Quotes

If your appearance is all people see, they have no respect for your mind.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their skin should be.

Women are not baby machines. There's a lot more to being a woman, so reducing them to that is quite disgusting.

Just because we wear hair extensions and make-up doesn't mean we're the punchline for every joke.

I hope people realise that there is a brain underneath the hair and a heart underneath the boobs.

People aren't comfortable thinking of women as people. Like we're not people, we're women, and that means something completely different, especially when you have power.

You look too pretty to be useful." "Truer words were never spoken.

Some people might only recognize me half naked in my bikini and bra!

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine.

Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

What is frustrating is being told that no matter how hard I've worked, it counts less than my appearance. Although if you're not considered conventionally attractive, that also becomes an issue: you know, you're a feminist because you couldn't get a man.

A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

Female comics cannot dress provocatively on stage.

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

If you talk about an issue, what comes back is a description of what you're wearing. Reporters only want to know how tall you are and if your teeth are capped.

Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so.

All that some actresses want is for people to take them seriously instead of caring about how they look.

There's nothing wrong with looking at a woman's kneecaps.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

I think people make a lot of judgments about me based on what I wear and all the things that I do.

It's hard to always be reduced to the way you look or your sex appeal or what that is.

I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.

I've heard people say to me, 'How can you claim to be a feminist when you dress like that?' I wear a lot of slip dresses and nightwear and stuff. People always question my credibility because of that: 'Oh, are you selling sex? Are you doing this or that to be recognized more or to sell your music?' No, it's just a fashion thing for me.

I've gotten a lot of comments about how I look and I can't help but think, Is anyone listening to what I'm saying? If I were a guy, no one would be saying, 'Wow, look at those pants' or 'Look at those legs.'