Quote by Beth Ditto
I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminde

I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing – just as my moms had before me, and her moms had before her. – Beth Ditto

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Ive never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didnt 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

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

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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself. – Balthazar Getty

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I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing Maria from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up. – Adam Sandler

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My mom and I have always been really close. Shes always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didnt have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always. – Taylor Swift

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I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and its in my blood. – Mandy Moore

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I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already. – Helen Fielding

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It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning. – Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter XLII

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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. – Author Unknown

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