I have learned so much making first collection that I am excited to use all of it towards making the next one even better! It’s been an amazing learning curve and experience.
BETH DITTOBarack 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.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that’s what you’re feeling?
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I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, “What you think about me is none of my business.”
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Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It’s proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.
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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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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.
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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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I hate to do what I’m told, that’s why I’m not good at 9-to-5s.
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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.
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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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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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I’m naturally a mousy blonde, so I dye my hair, and my eyebrows would disappear if I didn’t get through at least a pencil a month.
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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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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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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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True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.
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