I’m a great believer in karma and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.
BETH DITTOI’m a great believer in karma and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.
BETH DITTOGrowing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.
BETH DITTOBecause 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 DITTOI can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, ‘You don’t even know how to make a bed.
BETH DITTOI 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 DITTOTrue love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.
BETH DITTOBarack Obama was amazing, but he wasn’t perfect. We all know that. He was the closest thing to perfect America’s ever had. We were basking in the glow. We forgot that there’s always going to be a backlash within a movement every time.
BETH DITTOThis 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 DITTOI’m on a diet. It’s very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It’s working out – I’ve gained fifteen pounds!
BETH DITTOWhen I moved out of my mom’s house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
BETH DITTOI always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter – I just didn’t identify as a songwriter at all.
BETH DITTOAretha 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.
BETH DITTOI’m like cheddar: Yes, other cheeses are more ooh la la, but I’m strong, mature, and oh so delicious.
BETH DITTOThe shape is the most important to me because it is what really matters and what’s really missing in the market. Anything else is easier.
BETH DITTOI 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.
BETH DITTOLife is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.
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