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

Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

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

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.

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.

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.

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

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

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

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

Although people all over the world pray in different ways, it is to each heart the most precious light.

Quit trying so hard and sit quietly with yourself and you will see that there are no demands within you.

[I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me.

She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.

I’m Lila, and yes, he’s crazy. But you must have noticed that before now. He was crazy back when I knew him, and he’s obviously gotten crazier over time.

The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

Anybody can leverage celebrity for profit.

What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment.