black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: ‘Everyone’s talking, but you’re the one I can hear.

Beth Ditto

I love Adele so much and it’s honestly not because we’re both big.
BETH DITTO

Bigs Emotion Honestly Love
I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
BETH DITTO

Country Love Sad Song
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.
BETH DITTO

Crazy Looks People
I support love any healthy way you can get it.
BETH DITTO

Healthy Love Support
This is how I feel about everything that’s out of your control: once you make a record, it’s not yours anymore. There’s nothing you can do. It’s the way I feel about political movements – both of those things grow on their own.
BETH DITTO

Grow Movement Political
I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, ‘You don’t even know how to make a bed.
BETH DITTO

House People Thinking
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.
BETH DITTO

Childhood Sick Trying
I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.
BETH DITTO

Cute Fault Healthy
I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It’s incredible – Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.
BETH DITTO

Children Feminist Singers
My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.
BETH DITTO

Brain Dad Squirrel
Get a Job’ is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.
BETH DITTO

Jobs Kids Party
Growing 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 DITTO

Grow Up Kids Rejection
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.
BETH DITTO

Ideas Mad Thinking
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.
BETH DITTO

Girl Growing Responsibility Up
I’m like cheddar: Yes, other cheeses are more ooh la la, but I’m strong, mature, and oh so delicious.
BETH DITTO

Mature More Strong
I think it’s really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of ‘Vogue’ and ‘Rolling Stone,’ and like I think it’s really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don’t, then you’ll never be able to break that barrier.
BETH DITTO

People Talking Thinking

I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: ‘Everyone’s talking, but you’re the one I can hear.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: ‘Everyone’s talking, but you’re the one I can hear.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Beth Ditto Quotes