“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.”

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.

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 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.

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.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.

I ask everyone to join together – Republicans, Democrats, Independents and ‘I Don’t Cares’ – to stand against racism of all kinds. Every kind of racism. Stand together against this kind of racism: critical race theory.

I get that racism exists, but it’s not a catalyst for my content. I don’t need to talk about race to have material.

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.

A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.

We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

It’s racist to teach children to treat other children differently because of their skin color.