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.
BETH DITTOI hate to do what I’m told, that’s why I’m not good at 9-to-5s.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!
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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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I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas – well, not favorite but something I’ve always felt grateful for – was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn’t tons of feminist literature floating around.
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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 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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I hate to do what I’m told, that’s why I’m not good at 9-to-5s.
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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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Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?
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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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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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I love Adele so much and it’s honestly not because we’re both big.
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A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
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A few years back, when my style was “punk grandma”, I picked up an amazing pair of sandals – orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I’ve given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more “1980s substitute teacher gone wild.”
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I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself.
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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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