{"author":"Ani DiFranco","author_id":"Ani+DiFranco","total_quotes":29,"quotes":[{"text":"I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.","author":"Ani DiFranco","tags":["blessed","want","birth "],"id":11205,"author_id":"Ani+DiFranco"},{"text":"And half of learning to play is learning what not to playand she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to sayand she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her movesand make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to proveshe crawls out on a limb and begins to build her homeand it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not aloneup up up up up up up points the spire of the steeplebut god's work isn't done by godit's done by people.","author":"Ani DiFranco","tags":["art","integrity","intrinsic-motivation","simons-rock","transcendence","wind"],"id":73072,"author_id":"Ani+DiFranco"},{"text":"Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant. ","author":"Ani DiFranco","tags":["music","women","men "],"id":88045,"author_id":"Ani+DiFranco"},{"text":"I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.","author":"Ani DiFranco","tags":["myself","mirror","rich "],"id":143640,"author_id":"Ani+DiFranco"},{"text":"I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.","author":"Ani DiFranco","tags":["friendship","love","relationships"],"id":146589,"author_id":"Ani+DiFranco"},{"text":"Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. -Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle).","author":"Ani DiFranco","tags":["love","metaphor"],"id":146602,"author_id":"Ani+DiFranco"},{"text":"Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society.","author":"Ani DiFranco","tags":["elephant","human","talk "],"id":152812,"author_id":"Ani+DiFranco"},{"text":"Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.","author":"Ani DiFranco","tags":["hero","myself","know "],"id":156743,"author_id":"Ani+DiFranco"},{"text":"I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.","author":"Ani DiFranco","tags":["beauty"],"id":183463,"author_id":"Ani+DiFranco"},{"text":"Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.","author":"Ani DiFranco","tags":["balance","society","see "],"id":189123,"author_id":"Ani+DiFranco"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}