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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
#Idols
#Internet
#Literature
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.
- Beth Ditto
#Day
#Love
#Me
#Night
#Together
I've had a ton of fast-food jobs - it changes your approach to human interaction forever.
- Beth Ditto
#Approach
#Forever
#Human
#Interaction
For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.
- Beth Ditto
#Cool
#Culture
#Gay
#Group
#Lady
When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
- Beth Ditto
#Famous
#Hair
#Magazine
#Maintenance
#See
My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.
- Beth Ditto
#Chicken
#Dad
#Head
#Nose
#Squirrel
For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.
- Beth Ditto
#Best
#Bible
#Me
#Morning
#Revenge
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
#Amazing
#Look
#Style
#Teacher
#Wild
It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because maybe I'm afraid of rejection or I don't want to put anybody out. It's the Southerner in me, like, 'I don't mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?'
- Beth Ditto
#Mind
#Music
#Myself
#Song
#Together
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
#Joy
#Overcome
#Seven
#Time
#Way
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
#Culture
#Identity
#Look
#Me
#Myself
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
#Conscience
#Myself
#People
#Stop
#Work
In moments when I question if I should be having kids, I think of all those phone calls from my sister-in-law, in which, 3,000 miles away, I hear my nephews screaming for her attention. I tell her I have to go because I am packing to leave for Europe, and her tone flatlines: 'That must be nice.'
- Beth Ditto
#Attention
#Be Nice
#I Am
#Nice
#Phone
Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as 'smell good' and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic to most scents, so I have to be extra careful - as well as creative - in the smell department. The key, I've found, are essential oils, which come in all kinds of 100% natural scents.
- Beth Ditto
#Always
#Good
#Key
#Me
#Smell
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
#Attention Span
#Attention
#Good
#Long
My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood.
- Beth Ditto
#Dad
#Father
#Long
#Me
#Mom
Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.
- Beth Ditto
#Growing Up
#Obsession
#Rejection
#Trying
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
#Enough
#Great
#Karma
#Me
#Vengeance
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.
- Beth Ditto
#Cute
#Fat
#New
#Puberty
#Rules
A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
- Beth Ditto
#Beautiful
#Friend
#House
#Like
#Plant
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
#Body
#Confidence
#Learning
#Me
#Myself
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?
- Beth Ditto
#Crazy
#Culture
#Food
#Me
#Music
Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.
- Beth Ditto
#Beauty
#Capitalism
#Face
#Personality
As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.
- Beth Ditto
#Football
#Hate
#Men
#Thanksgiving
#Women
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
#Myself
#Teen
#World
I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.
- Beth Ditto
#Country
#Love
#Music
#Sad
#Sound
#They Say
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