Beth Ditto Quotes About Growing Up

Quotes about: Growing Up

• 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.

  Beth Ditto

  Girl, Growing Up, Responsibility

  Beth Ditto (2012). “Coal to Diamonds”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

• 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, Kids, Rejection

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2007.

• 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

  Growing Up, Grateful, Idols

• I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.

  Beth Ditto

  Growing Up, Quiet Voice, Knights

  "The insiders guide to Beth Ditto". www.cnn.com. November 24, 2006.

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