I’ve had people ask me in interviews what it’s like to have money, but that’s not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.
BETH DITTOHigh 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.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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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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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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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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I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn’t lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person.
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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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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.
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I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.
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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 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 love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that’s great and fits you.
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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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There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
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Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.
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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 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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