Beth Ditto quotes

Beth Ditto is an American singer, songwriter, and activist, best known as the frontwoman of the indie rock band Gossip. Known for her powerful voice and unapologetic stage presence, she has become an icon in both music and LGBTQ+ communities. She also advocates for body positivity and diversity in the entertainment industry. Here are 87 of her quotes:

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.

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I've had a ton of fast-food jobs - it changes your approach to human interaction forever.

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Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.

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I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone,' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.

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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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I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.

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Even talking, I'm super-loud. I could never have that kind of meek, little wispy whimsical lavender and lace voice. It comes from my body. There's no way I can fight it.

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There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

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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.

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This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.

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Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

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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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I shave my body in all kinds of ways, wear tons of eyeliner and dye my hair pink.

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I'm 90% performer, 10% musician. I've always said that Gossip are a band I would go see, not a band I would listen to.

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