I’ve had a ton of fast-food jobs – it changes your approach to human interaction forever.
BETH DITTOI was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!
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I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: ‘Everyone’s talking, but you’re the one I can hear.
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Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music – well, still not knowing how to play music.
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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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I am tired of spending a little bit of money in a lot of pieces because they keep on falling apart.
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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 my bloodline, that “even lesbians can have babies these days.”
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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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Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
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With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress – a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.
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If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn’t getting proper exercise.
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I love to make people feel like they are taking a part in their own body and evolution.
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True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.
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You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There’s nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.
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Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It’s proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.
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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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