black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

This archaic idea – that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural – will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.

Beth Ditto

I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myself. That took some work, but because of it I can now say no to other people with a clear conscience.
BETH DITTO

Clear Conscience People Rejection
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 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.
BETH DITTO

Green Hair Purple
I have learned so much making first collection that I am excited to use all of it towards making the next one even better! It’s been an amazing learning curve and experience.
BETH DITTO

Curves Firsts Next
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.
BETH DITTO

Kids Rich School
I’m like cheddar: Yes, other cheeses are more ooh la la, but I’m strong, mature, and oh so delicious.
BETH DITTO

Mature More Strong
True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.
BETH DITTO

Accepting Emotion Love
Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that’s what stuck to me; it’s like, you really are a factory. You don’t do things to make them, on your own time.
BETH DITTO

Albums Six Years
I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You’re constantly learning how to be confident, aren’t you?
BETH DITTO

Important People Thinking
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.
BETH DITTO

Band Gossip Things Weird
Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.
BETH DITTO

Existence Mundane People
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.”
BETH DITTO

Baby Branches Kids
To be thin and to stay really thin, sometimes some people literally do coke all the time. Some people smoke cigarettes instead of eating. That’s crazy. But that’s ‘okay’ because you look healthier.
BETH DITTO

Crazy Looks People
Do 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.
BETH DITTO

Home Nice Thinking
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 DITTO

Important Missing Shape
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

This archaic idea – that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural – will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

This archaic idea – that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural – will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Beth Ditto Quotes