Ani DiFranco Quotes

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves.

I've stopped blaming myself for being a woman. I've stopped being apologetic about my sexuality and become comfortable with myself.

It's very important for females to feel empowered. It took me a long time to find that inside me.

I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.

I didn't write my book, 'I Don't Care About Your Band,' in order to give women a brand-new set of dating rules they need to feel terrible about not abiding. I wrote my book to make the women who read it feel good about themselves, and a little more entitled to be treated well by the guys they go out with.

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

It took me ages to grow into being a woman, into being happy with it.

Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.

I don't consider myself a feminist, but I'm down for my first opportunity to say something to the world to be so meaningful. If you asked me, 'What do you want to say?' it would be, 'Love yourself more.'

A woman is more than the sum of her parts.

My mom is such a strong, independent, strong-willed woman, and she always taught me to accept my worth for how I viewed myself and female empowerment, and it's okay to be independent and also need someone at the same time. I kinda get to be both.

Everyone has different issues, and I think for a great deal of women, those issues are self-esteem. And for me, I really wanted to understand it and get through it because I didn't want to be an actress afraid of getting older. I refuse to live that way.

I think, when you value yourself and respect yourself, everything else just falls into place.

I think Man Repeller is more about self-confidence than it is about a woman's relationship with a man.

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves. A lot of young girls are quite lost.

I'm proud of my body, I'm proud of my sport, I'm proud of being a female athlete.

I get my strength from wanting to teach other women that everything about you is OK, and you shouldn't take any crap from anyone.

I have learned to be as strong and confident as the women I represent in photographs.

I don't know if any woman is completely happy with the way she leads her life or with the way people treat her.

It's kind of hard to retain the feminine. I have so much respect for the feminine, but it's actually something I have to work for.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

Be the Woman You Want to Be.