“The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.”

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies.

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs ‘Come On, Come On’ and ‘I Am A Town’, they’re two of my favorite songs.

There’s a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

When there’s an opportunity to do more, we must.

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

It’s just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it’s not a thousand acres, it’s considered a ranchette.

As you get older, your voice changes, as well. Your voice should be able to last as long as you last.

If we’re for one another, we’re feminists. The rest is semantics.

The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

My two great loves are music and horses.

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.

If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.

Militant feminists are pro-choice because it’s their ultimate avenue of power over men.

Patriarchy has no gender.

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

Feminism insists on methods of thought and action that urge us to think about things together that appear to be separate, and to disaggregate things that appear to naturally belong together.