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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

I work really well under pressure but I really hate doing things on a timeframe.
BETH DITTO

Hate Pressure Wells
Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.
BETH DITTO

Existence Mundane People
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.
BETH DITTO

Bisexual Hair Teenager
When I think about the idea of Rebel Wilson having to go to the Oscars and not having something amazing to wear that’s made for her, it drives me mad.
BETH DITTO

Ideas Mad Thinking
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’m shameless, and I love a pun. There’s a lot of Beth puns.
BETH DITTO

Beth Pun Shameless
I support love any healthy way you can get it.
BETH DITTO

Healthy Love Support
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
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!
BETH DITTO

Baptists Joy Overcoming
I don’t have a good attention span and can’t spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.
BETH DITTO

Games Long Video
I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn’t understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.
BETH DITTO

Fashion Girl Passion
I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, “What you think about me is none of my business.”
BETH DITTO

Favourite Good Relationships Thinking
I’m a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I’m very politically correct, although I do question what’s PC and what’s not – I don’t just accept what I’m told.
BETH DITTO

Accepting Feels Feminist
I’ve belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don’t know why.
BETH DITTO

Bladder Surgery
We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.
BETH DITTO

Certain Ideas Shape
I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter – I just didn’t identify as a songwriter at all.
BETH DITTO

Body Person Voice

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.

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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.

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