“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.

It’s not about women acting like man, it’s about women acting like woman and being sucsessful

The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.

We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.

We weren’t idiots, but I didn’t have that access to academic feminism. I had to realize, on my own, that feminism is not just about how far ahead you can get in a job and it isn’t about not wearing makeup. It isn’t about not watching your waistline. I had to recreate the world entirely.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

We must reclaim and retake feminism from our fellow idiotic women.