172 Quotes by Beth Ditto

My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.

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

If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn’t getting proper exercise.

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.

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.

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.

Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we’re slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we’re not told growing up, and it’s our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.

All this fashion stuff – who’s cool now – is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.