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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.

Beth Ditto

I worshipped Ethel Merman and I worshipped Ethel Merman a lot. It’s incredible – Ethel Merman was a conventional singer. Her naming her child Ethel Merman, Jr., was, to me, one of the coolest feminist things.
BETH DITTO

Children Feminist Singers
I’m shameless, and I love a pun. There’s a lot of Beth puns.
BETH DITTO

Beth Pun Shameless
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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Knowing Listening Play
Just like my straight friends, I am repeatedly asked when I plan to have kids, and have been told many times, by various branches of my bloodline, that “even lesbians can have babies these days.”
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Baby Branches Kids
Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredible Christian background, and where there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
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Christian Mom Teenage
True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.
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Accepting Emotion Love
I’ve had people ask me in interviews what it’s like to have money, but that’s not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.
BETH DITTO

BMW Class People
I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
BETH DITTO

Country Love Sad Song
Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.
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Existence Mundane People
I just like food too much, and I don’t want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it … I don’t want to look like Britney Spears, I just don’t want to. She’s hideous.
BETH DITTO

Childhood Sick Trying
I am tired of spending a little bit of money in a lot of pieces because they keep on falling apart.
BETH DITTO

Fall Pieces Tired
I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: ‘Everyone’s talking, but you’re the one I can hear.
BETH DITTO

School Talking Teacher
Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.
BETH DITTO

Fun Instagram Insult
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 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”.
BETH DITTO

Challenges Favorites Inspiration Things
When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, “Where’s your other album?”
BETH DITTO

Media People Thinking

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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