Quote by Beth Ditto
Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an inc

Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way. – Beth Ditto

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My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character – I am that character… Its a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and Ive put them all to work onstage. – Beth Ditto

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amazing
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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 thats ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional. – Beth Ditto

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I feel sorry… for people whove had skinny privilege and then have it taken away from them. I have had a lifetime to adjust to seeing how people treat women who arent their idea of beautiful and therefore arent their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself. – Beth Ditto

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Women
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I deal with postpartum feelings by reaching out to mom friends. I became very close with some of the women in my prenatal yoga class. – Alyssa Milano

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A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then theres my personal favorite, the male ego. – Roseanne Barr

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My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice. – Iggy Pop

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My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasnt supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that. – Jason Aldean

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A good time to laugh is any time you can. – Linda Ellerbee

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History is particularly important in throwing light on the source of our attitudes about sex because many of the assumptions we make are not necessarily scientific or rational but holdovers of past belief systems that are no longer held by modern society. – Vern Bullough

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The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. – Edward F. Halifax

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What you say about this world I do not quite agree with I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others. – William John Wills

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