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Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.

Beth Ditto

Barack 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 DITTO

People Perfect Thinking
Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that’s what you’re feeling?
BETH DITTO

Distance Letting Go Mean
Products are a must – full stop. I’m sorry to say it, but that bob won’t look so sleek on its own – you need a little help. It doesn’t have to be the high-end stuff that they sell in the salon. Products you find in the supermarket are just as good, and sometimes better.
BETH DITTO

Looks Needs Sorry
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
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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School Talking Teacher
A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
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Beautiful House Plant
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.
BETH DITTO

Knowing Listening Play
I wish I could open a piece of my brain and you could see into my memories.
BETH DITTO

Brain Memories Wish
Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.
BETH DITTO

Existence Mundane People
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.
BETH DITTO

Creative Night People
I support love any healthy way you can get it.
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Healthy Love Support
I’m passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.
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Book Friendship Fun
I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, “What you think about me is none of my business.”
BETH DITTO

Favourite Good Relationships Thinking
True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.
BETH DITTO

Accepting Emotion Love
I said to my teacher, ‘I can’t be a singer because I’m not pretty enough, and I’m fat.’ And she looked at me and said, ‘Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.’ That changed my life forever!
BETH DITTO

Forever Singer Teacher
I find inspiration everywhere. I love challenges and my favorite thing is to find something ridiculous and be like “if it’s all that I have available to me, I am gonna make it look the best that I can”.
BETH DITTO

Challenges Favorites Inspiration Things

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