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.
BETH DITTOBecause 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.
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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Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that’s what stuck to me; it’s like, you really are a factory. You don’t do things to make them, on your own time.
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A few years back, when my style was “punk grandma”, I picked up an amazing pair of sandals – orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I’ve given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more “1980s substitute teacher gone wild.”
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As a kid, I was always mad – just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don’t want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.
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My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.
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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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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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Even if you’re only wearing trainers and a vest, eyeliner will instantly transform you. People always look put-together when their make-up’s on and their eyes are popping – just ask Amy Winehouse!
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I’m 90% performer, 10% musician. I’ve always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.
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I’m on a diet. It’s very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It’s working out – I’ve gained fifteen pounds!
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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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When I moved out of my mom’s house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
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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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I’ve belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don’t know why.
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