I love Adele so much and it’s honestly not because we’re both big.
BETH DITTOI never went to college and I was raised in Arkansas so there wasn’t a lot of academic language being thrown around my house.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She’s a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the 80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.
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When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand’s flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.
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I don’t love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.
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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’m shameless, and I love a pun. There’s a lot of Beth puns.
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I never went to college and I was raised in Arkansas so there wasn’t a lot of academic language being thrown around my house.
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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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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 for – was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn’t tons of feminist literature floating around.
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Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?
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I’ve had a ton of fast-food jobs – it changes your approach to human interaction forever.
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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.
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Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.
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My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character – I am that character… It’s a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I’ve put them all to work onstage.
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I wish I could open a piece of my brain and you could see into my memories.
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I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself.
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