We weren’t idiots, but I didn’t have that access to academic feminism. I had to realize, on my own, that feminism is not just about how far ahead you can get in a job and it isn’t about not wearing makeup. It isn’t about not watching your waistline. I had to recreate the world entirely.
BETH DITTOI think if the world were a fair and just place, there wouldn’t even need to be a gay label.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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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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True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.
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Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don’t think it’ll happen – and that’s fine. It’s kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.
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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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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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Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?
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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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As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there’s a great big world to explore out there.
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I find inspiration everywhere. I love challenges and my favorite thing is to find something ridiculous and be like “if it’s all that I have available to me, I am gonna make it look the best that I can”.
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I don’t love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.
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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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I’m shameless, and I love a pun. There’s a lot of Beth puns.
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I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
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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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