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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 fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn’t understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.

Beth Ditto

I mean, if I was living to please people, I’d have never been in a band at all. I wouldn’t have anything awesome around. I’d just be bored.
BETH DITTO

Bored Mean People
I love Adele so much and it’s honestly not because we’re both big.
BETH DITTO

Bigs Emotion Honestly Love
I’m passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.
BETH DITTO

Book Friendship Fun
I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, “What you think about me is none of my business.”
BETH DITTO

Favourite Good Relationships Thinking
I wish I could open a piece of my brain and you could see into my memories.
BETH DITTO

Brain Memories Wish
I am tired of spending a little bit of money in a lot of pieces because they keep on falling apart.
BETH DITTO

Fall Pieces Tired
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 the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person.
BETH DITTO

Careers Mama Weight
Even if you’re only wearing trainers and a vest, eyeliner will instantly transform you. People always look put-together when their make-up’s on and their eyes are popping – just ask Amy Winehouse!
BETH DITTO

Eye People Together
This archaic idea – that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural – will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.
BETH DITTO

Ideas Ridiculous Social
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 has ever exempted me from having lewd comments flung at me in the street.
BETH DITTO

Green Hair Purple
Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?
BETH DITTO

Clothes Pants Wear
I’ve had a ton of fast-food jobs – it changes your approach to human interaction forever.
BETH DITTO

Fast Food Forever Jobs
Because I didn’t have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn’t hand us enough variety to choose from.
BETH DITTO

Female Hands Identity Role Models
I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.
BETH DITTO

Cute Fault Healthy
I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.
BETH DITTO

Said Singers Wanted
True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.
BETH DITTO

Accepting Emotion Love

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 fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn’t understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.

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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 fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn’t understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.

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