“I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up wh...” — Ani DiFranco Quote

“I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.”

“For me, the stronger ground I have in my personal life, then the more will I have to fight the good fight.”

“Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.”

“In this rapidly changing media environment, business transformations need to be closely linked to communications strategies.”

“Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the behaviour of the monsoon.”

“Lemon curd is one of the first things I remember cooking when I was old enough to use the stove without supervision. I looked up a recipe in my one of my mom's Martha Stewart cookbooks and went to work, stirring anxiously and monitoring closely for signs that the mixture was thickening so as not to curdle the eggs.”