I’ve had a ton of fast-food jobs – it changes your approach to human interaction forever.
BETH DITTODo 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.
More Beth Ditto Quotes
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I really worshipped Mama Cass a lot. Mama Cass, who was really fat and she didn’t lose weight. Yeah, she went on diets but for the most part of her life and the better part of her career she was a big person.
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Because I didn’t have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn’t hand us enough variety to choose from.
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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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A weird thing about Gossip that I’ve always said: “If I weren’t in this band, I would never listen to it.” But I would go see it. It’s a band you would go see that you don’t necessarily listen to.
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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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There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
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When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand’s flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.
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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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I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, “What you think about me is none of my business.”
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True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.
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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 think it’s really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of ‘Vogue’ and ‘Rolling Stone,’ and like I think it’s really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don’t, then you’ll never be able to break that barrier.
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Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?
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I love to make people feel like they are taking a part in their own body and evolution.
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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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