If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn’t getting proper exercise.
BETH DITTOI wish I could open a piece of my brain and you could see into my memories.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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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 wish I could open a piece of my brain and you could see into my memories.
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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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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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Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don’t think it’ll happen – and that’s fine. It’s kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.
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I love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that’s great and fits you.
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To 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.
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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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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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I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
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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.
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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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I’ve belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don’t know why.
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I’m like cheddar: Yes, other cheeses are more ooh la la, but I’m strong, mature, and oh so delicious.
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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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