“Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.”
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I feel sorry... for people who've 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 aren't their idea of beautiful and therefore aren't their idea of useful, and I had to find ways to become useful to myself.
I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone, ' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.
All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.
When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.