"Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from."

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Source : "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.

Beth Ditto

#Hands Quotes #Role Models Quotes #Identity Quotes

“Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.”
“My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.”

Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.15, New York Review of Books
“Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.”
“A man who dies without adequate life insurance should have to come back and see the mess he created.”
“You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.”
“When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them!”
“If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception. In that way you can see, hear and play with God. Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you.”
“Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.”

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