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 DITTOPortland 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.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, “Where’s your other album?”
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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.
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A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
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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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Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.
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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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There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
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High school wasn’t so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more nerdy kids and poor kids than there were rich, popular kids, so, at the very least, we had them outnumbered.
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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.
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Get a Job’ is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.
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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.
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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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The thing about being on the majors, from the beginning, going into this, I was like, “I’m not going to be treated like a factory,” because that’s never the way it was done before.
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When I was a kid Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O’Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet.
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Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music – well, still not knowing how to play music.
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