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

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Change
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When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisands flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen. – Beth Ditto

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teen
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Ive had people ask me in interviews what its like to have money, but thats not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW. – Beth Ditto

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Money
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So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make… A lot of my life is unexamined habit. – Kristin Bauer van Straten

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My mom was a seamstress, and I wish Id learned to sew because Im obsessed with Project Runway! – Carmen Electra

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mom

I think Id be a great mom, honestly. I dont think Ill have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part. – Queen Latifah

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mom

When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver. – Joe Theismann

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Assurance is two-thirds of success. – Scottish Proverb

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Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines. – Gloria Trevi

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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. – Emile-Auguste Chartier

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Students

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. – Lord Acton

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Society