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.

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.

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.

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.

I never knew true fear until I met pure evil. He wore a smile and a bow tie.

Sometimes while waiting for God's promises to come to pass, we messed up things and go into so many troubles, but God’s mercy has never failed in bringing us out of them all.

Slow animals always become prey in the end.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.

All I ask is for people to trust me.

Babies aren't dishwasher-safe.

I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can quite often have a dark feel.

We must love while these moments are still called today.

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.