I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, “What you think about me is none of my business.”
BETH DITTOI 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.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn’t understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.
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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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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 never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.
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I love Adele so much and it’s honestly not because we’re both big.
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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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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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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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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.
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We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.
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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.
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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 wish I could open a piece of my brain and you could see into my memories.
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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.
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I don’t love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.
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