I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing – just as my mom’s had before me, and her mom’s had before her.
BETH DITTOWhen you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, “Where’s your other album?”
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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I’ve had a ton of fast-food jobs – it changes your approach to human interaction forever.
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ABBA was a direct influence on me.
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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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I wish I could open a piece of my brain and you could see into my memories.
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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.
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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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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!
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I never went to college and I was raised in Arkansas so there wasn’t a lot of academic language being thrown around my house.
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Aretha 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.
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I am tired of spending a little bit of money in a lot of pieces because they keep on falling apart.
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Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.
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I’m a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I’m very politically correct, although I do question what’s PC and what’s not – I don’t just accept what I’m told.
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Because 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.
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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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I don’t have a good attention span and can’t spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.
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