Ani DiFranco Quotes

I'm an ardent feminist.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

I'm like a bit of a feminist, I have kinds of highly political dreams. I'm a dreamer about taking on the patriarchy and all that kinda stuff. So I actually have the secret belief that there are enough people who would consider themselves quote-unquote "other" to support my particular taste.

Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.

I think feminism is taking off. It's just not visible in the way that we would like it to be.

I consider myself a feminist. My whole life has been about standing up for women, for anybody really, who's been abused.

I still consider myself a feminist.

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

I am most certainly a feminist.

I am a feminist.

I'm definitely a feminist.

Young girls getting into feminism.

Feminism is just like HIV awareness: It's not something we don't need anymore, it's something that is just as important as it was a few decades ago. It is a very important fight.

Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.

the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.

Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...

Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.

I wanted to speak strongly about feminism in my life, since it's been a struggle.

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

I've been a feminist since I was a teenager, but originally it was because I wanted to make the world a better place for me.

You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.

When Rudy Giuliani became mayor of New York in 1993, his belief in the 'Broken Windows' theory led him to implement the 'Zero Tolerance' crime policy. Crime dropped dramatically, significantly, and continued to for the next ten years. Personally, I feel the time has come for women to introduce their own Zero Tolerance policy on the Broken Windows issues in our lives - I want a Zero Tolerance policy on 'All The Patriarchal Bullshit'.

My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist tests on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything. Now that I am older, I can see that feeling terrified is how you recognize what you need. Terror encourages you to jump, even when you don't know if you will ever land.

Feminism is definitely a part of everything I do.