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.
Beth DittoWhen I moved out of my mom's house at 18 I was almost as sad to leave her sewing machine behind as anything else.
Beth DittoI'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.
Beth DittoI grew up with the motto of "they can't kill you and eat you," and I still think that's right. You sure as hell can't! When it comes to speaking about my body makes other people uncomfortable but it doesn't make me uncomfortable. It makes them think more about themselves than it makes them judge me. I've always had this body and had to live with it. I've never been a little thing. I've been smaller but I've never been small, even as a baby. I've never had that window into that kind of world where people only talk to you because you're conventionally sexy.
Beth Ditto