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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.

Beth Ditto

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 DITTO

College House Makeup
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.
BETH DITTO

Football Running Thanksgiving
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 DITTO

Curves Firsts Next
I don’t love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.
BETH DITTO

Feels Love Luxury
I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, ‘You don’t even know how to make a bed.
BETH DITTO

House People Thinking
I love to make people feel like they are taking a part in their own body and evolution.
BETH DITTO

Body Evolution People
I am tired of spending a little bit of money in a lot of pieces because they keep on falling apart.
BETH DITTO

Fall Pieces Tired
There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
BETH DITTO

Bitter Charming Shame
To be thin and to stay really thin, sometimes some people literally do coke all the time. Some people smoke cigarettes instead of eating. That’s crazy. But that’s ‘okay’ because you look healthier.
BETH DITTO

Crazy Looks People
I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.
BETH DITTO

Said Singers Wanted
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.
BETH DITTO

Green Hair Purple
Even talking, I’m super-loud. I could never have that kind of meek, little wispy whimsical lavender and lace voice. It comes from my body. There’s no way I can fight it.
BETH DITTO

Fighting Talking Voice
True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.
BETH DITTO

Accepting Emotion Love
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.
BETH DITTO

Important Missing Shape
I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself.
BETH DITTO

People Think Thinking
When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, “Where’s your other album?”
BETH DITTO

Media People Thinking

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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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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