A few years back, when my style was “punk grandma”, I picked up an amazing pair of sandals – orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I’ve given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more “1980s substitute teacher gone wild.”
BETH DITTOTo be thin and to stay really thin, sometimes some people literally do coke all the time. Some people smoke cigarettes instead of eating. That’s crazy. But that’s ‘okay’ because you look healthier.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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When I think about the idea of Rebel Wilson having to go to the Oscars and not having something amazing to wear that’s made for her, it drives me mad.
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I don’t have a good attention span and can’t spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.
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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.
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Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.
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When I moved out of my mom’s house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
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I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.
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I’ve belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don’t know why.
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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 sick of it … I don’t want to look like Britney Spears, I just don’t want to. She’s hideous.
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Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we’re slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we’re not told growing up, and it’s our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
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I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, “What you think about me is none of my business.”
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The black bubble dress is a must! The leggings are absolutely amazing too, they fit perfectly and let you breath when still being super high-waisted. They are everything and so easy to pair anything with.
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I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, ‘You don’t even know how to make a bed.
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As a kid, I was always mad – just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don’t want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.
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I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.
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When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, “Where’s your other album?”
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