For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, ‘The voice follows… the voice follows everything about you… who you are.
BETTY BUCKLEYThe 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.
More Betty Buckley Quotes
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It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.
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Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
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My two great loves are music and horses.
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Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.
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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.
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I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.
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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.
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Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.
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I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.
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When there’s an opportunity to do more, we must.
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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.
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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.
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The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.
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There’s a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.
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If we’re for one another, we’re feminists. The rest is semantics.
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