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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

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
If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn’t getting proper exercise.
BETH DITTO

Brain Exercise Therapist
I think if the world were a fair and just place, there wouldn’t even need to be a gay label.
BETH DITTO

Gay Needs Thinking
Sometimes love can mean letting go and loving each other from a distance. Maybe that’s what you’re feeling?
BETH DITTO

Distance Letting Go Mean
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.
BETH DITTO

People Perfect Thinking
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
A few years back, when my style was “punk grandma”, I picked up an amazing pair of sandals – orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. I’ve given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more “1980s substitute teacher gone wild.”
BETH DITTO

Grandma Teacher Years
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.
BETH DITTO

Female Hands Identity Role Models
The black bubble dress is a must! The leggings are absolutely amazing too, they fit perfectly and let you breath when still being super high-waisted. They are everything and so easy to pair anything with.
BETH DITTO

Black Dresses Pairs
You’re talking about a major label, we’re talking about serious business; you’re not an artist anymore, you’re a business, you have to work in terms of product, you have to release a product, and I don’t really think that way at all.
BETH DITTO

Anymore Business Product Release
I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, ‘You don’t even know how to make a bed.
BETH DITTO

House People 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.
BETH DITTO

Clear Conscience People Rejection
I have a lot of feminist idols. My favorite thing about growing up in Arkansas – well, not favorite but something I’ve always felt grateful for – was that I really had to dig for what I could. There was no Internet. There wasn’t tons of feminist literature floating around.
BETH DITTO

Grateful Growing Idols Up
I’m on a diet. It’s very strict: all hot dogs. Just sausages, constantly. It’s working out – I’ve gained fifteen pounds!
BETH DITTO

Dog Music Out Work
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 was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: ‘Everyone’s talking, but you’re the one I can hear.

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

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