I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
BETH DITTOThere is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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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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For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She’s a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the 80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.
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I think if the world were a fair and just place, there wouldn’t even need to be a gay label.
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I’m shameless, and I love a pun. There’s a lot of Beth puns.
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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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There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
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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 don’t love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.
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We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.
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I love Adele so much and it’s honestly not because we’re both big.
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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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When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so’s head, it’s tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but DO NOT BE FOOLED. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
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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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A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
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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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