Beth Ditto Quotes

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• It's funny how something so normal and mundane that you see every day-your body-can be controversial. The shock value is intense. It's like carrying an art piece around with you all the time.

  Beth Ditto

  Art, Normal, Pieces

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• 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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  Thinking, People, Important

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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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  Thinking, Good Relationship, Favourite

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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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  Political, You Can Do It

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Reclaiming the word fat was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.

  Beth Ditto

  Emotional, Empowering, Progress

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Karma, Mean, Vengeance

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2007.

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• Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film Funny Girl at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.

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  Girl, Believe, Funny Motivational

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2007.

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• I'm like cheddar: Yes, other cheeses are more ooh la la, but I'm strong, mature, and oh so delicious.

  Beth Ditto

  Strong, Mature

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.

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  Numbers, Style, Life Is

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Girl, Fashion, Passion

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• 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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  Teacher, Forever, Singers

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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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  Gay, Thinking, Needs

  "Beth Ditto of Gossip". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 16, 2008.

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• True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.

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  Love Is, Emotion, Accepting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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."

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  Teacher, Grandma, Years

  "The friendliest big little city in America" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2007.

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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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  Hands, Female Role Models, Identity

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.

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• I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.

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  Singers, Said, Wanted

  "Beth Ditto of Gossip". Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. April 16, 2008.

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• I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.

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  Friendship, Fun, Book

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• With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress - a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.

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  Eye, Curves, Lovely

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• You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?

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  Months, Flavour, Fats

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

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• I always think that people think that women in music are always angry. I'm not angry. Rock 'n' roll music made by men is so much more over-the-top aggressive than when a women says "you" and they're screaming it, it's like, 'Oh my God!' I'm like, 'Have you heard rock music made by men?'

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  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• I don't get mad with people, like, 'Oh, but that's not what the song was about...' It's also nice to know that people are mindlessly dancing to a song about the US Government's stance on same-sex marriages... especially straight jocks. I love that idea. I think that's the beauty of music - it's different for everybody.

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  Song, Nice, Thinking

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• I love Adele so much and it's honestly not because we're both big.

  Beth Ditto

  Bigs, Honestly

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• For years now I have run a kitchen-sink punk salon in my house, called Salon du Gay. In the early days, people would pay for a riot grrrl bob or a passable bleach job with a mixtape, $3 or a selection of baked goods - whichever they could afford. More recently though, with Gossip doing well, I've performed these punk hair transformations for free.

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  Running, Jobs, Gay

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2008.

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• We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.

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  Mom, Mother, Cutting

  "What Would Beth Ditto Do?", www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2007.

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• Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?

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  Crazy, Order, Special

  Beth Ditto (2012). “Coal to Diamonds”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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