We weren’t idiots, but I didn’t have that access to academic feminism. I had to realize, on my own, that feminism is not just about how far ahead you can get in a job and it isn’t about not wearing makeup. It isn’t about not watching your waistline. I had to recreate the world entirely.
BETH DITTOI’m on a diet. It’s very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It’s working out – I’ve gained fifteen pounds!
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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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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The thing about being on the majors, from the beginning, going into this, I was like, “I’m not going to be treated like a factory,” because that’s never the way it was done before.
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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, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You’re constantly learning how to be confident, aren’t you?
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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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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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This archaic idea – that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural – will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.
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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.
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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 support love any healthy way you can get it.
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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 love to make people feel like they are taking a part in their own body and evolution.
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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.
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I love Adele so much and it’s honestly not because we’re both big.
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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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