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

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.

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

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.

There are people who treat you right and there are people who do not treat you right. Don't get affected by the latter! Hold on to the former - the chosen ones in your life and move on.

The universe can bring it. We'll deal with whatever may happen together.

The first law of success ... is concentration: to bend all the energies to one point and to go directly to that point looking neither to the right nor the left.

President [George] Bush made the U.S. absolutely the leader, between its own PEPFAR, and it's been by far the biggest Global Fund donor. That's a legacy.

Lance Armstrong admitted he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career. He confessed in front of the most respected judge in the land, Oprah Winfrey.

You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good.

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.

I don't like finished things, because finished is over, dead.