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Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.

Beth Ditto

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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Careers Mama Weight
Get a Job’ is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.
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Jobs Kids Party
I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.
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Cute Fault Healthy
Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that’s what you’re feeling?
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Distance Letting Go Mean
Even if you’re only wearing trainers and a vest, eyeliner will instantly transform you. People always look put-together when their make-up’s on and their eyes are popping – just ask Amy Winehouse!
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Eye People Together
I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.
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Said Singers Wanted
This is how I feel about everything that’s out of your control: once you make a record, it’s not yours anymore. There’s nothing you can do. It’s the way I feel about political movements – both of those things grow on their own.
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Grow Movement Political
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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Important Missing Shape
Instagram is a Roman arena of insults. Everyone is a lion, but it is fun.
BETH DITTO

Fun Instagram Insult
Barack Obama was amazing, but he wasn’t perfect. We all know that. He was the closest thing to perfect America’s ever had. We were basking in the glow. We forgot that there’s always going to be a backlash within a movement every time.
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People Perfect Thinking
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.
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Clear Conscience People Rejection
I’ve had a ton of fast-food jobs – it changes your approach to human interaction forever.
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Fast Food Forever Jobs
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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Creative Night People
I said to my teacher, ‘I can’t be a singer because I’m not pretty enough, and I’m fat.’ And she looked at me and said, ‘Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.’ That changed my life forever!
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Forever Singer Teacher
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?
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Important People Thinking
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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Female Hands Identity Role Models

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