Beth Ditto Quotes

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• Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was…
• High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there…
• I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter -…
• I certainly know first hand the waste one lady can create through her primping routine, because I am a victim of fashion: to me a…
• I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas - well, not favorite but something I've always felt grateful…
• I have been 130 lbs. as well as 215 lbs. I have had blond, strawberry blond, green, pink and purple hair, and none of that…
• I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got…
• I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn't lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for…
• I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone,' and like I think it's really…
• I think that for the five-year-old watching MTV right now, Lady Gaga is going to be an iconic person. In 20 years, the people who…
• I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for…
• I want to make the IKEA of clothes for fat girls and boys. Cheap, affordable, basic - but ethically made. Basics, you know? Like Spanx…
• I was born to be married. I just feel comfortable there. I love the idea of being partnered for ever. I love my girlfriend, we've…
• I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It's incredible - Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel…
• I'm a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I'm very politically correct, although I do question what's P.C. and what's not - I…
• I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I…
• I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I…
• I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to…
• In moments when I question if I should be having kids, I think of all those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in which, 3,000 miles…
• Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of…

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