All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.
Beth DittoThere is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.
Beth DittoI mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything awesome around. I'd just be bored.
Beth DittoI never went to college and I was raised in Arkansas so there wasn't a lot of academic language being thrown around my house. We weren't idiots, but I didn't have that access to academic feminism. I had to realize, on my own, that feminism is not just about how far ahead you can get in a job and it isn't about not wearing makeup. It isn't about not watching your waistline. I had to recreate the world entirely.
Beth Ditto