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.
BETH DITTOWhen you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, “Where’s your other album?”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
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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 can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, ‘You don’t even know how to make a bed.
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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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The 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.
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Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.
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A weird thing about Gossip that I’ve always said: “If I weren’t in this band, I would never listen to it.” But I would go see it. It’s a band you would go see that you don’t necessarily listen to.
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When I was a kid Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O’Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet.
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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 no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself.
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High school wasn’t so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.
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I’m passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.
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