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
Get a Job is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done. – Beth Ditto
All this fashion stuff – whos cool now – is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds. – Beth Ditto
A few years back, when my style was punk grandma, I picked up an amazing pair of sandals – orthopaedic ones, with really thick soles. Ive given them away to a friend now, because these days my look is more 1980s substitute teacher gone wild. – Beth Ditto
No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter…. – Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin, Tried As By Fire; or, The True and the False,
Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top – C-level jobs, board seats – tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent. – Sheryl Sandberg