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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.

Beth Ditto

I’m a great believer in karma and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.
BETH DITTO

Karma Mean Vengeance
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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School Talking Teacher
I don’t have a good attention span and can’t spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.
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Games Long Video
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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Ideas Ridiculous Social
I don’t love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.
BETH DITTO

Feels Love Luxury
You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There’s nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.
BETH DITTO

Creative Night People
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
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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Important People Thinking
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!
BETH DITTO

Eye People Together
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.
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Fighting Talking Voice
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.
BETH DITTO

Accepting Feels Feminist
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
I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter – I just didn’t identify as a songwriter at all.
BETH DITTO

Body Person Voice
I think it’s really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of ‘Vogue’ and ‘Rolling Stone,’ and like I think it’s really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don’t, then you’ll never be able to break that barrier.
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People Talking Thinking
My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.
BETH DITTO

Brain Dad Squirrel
True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.
BETH DITTO

Accepting Emotion Love

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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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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