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

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.

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.

Now is the only time you have. Change is happening. Give up your desire to control the world

...our stories are who we are, where we begin. They connect us, tearing down walls and shattering isolation. For story is where hope begins.

When black fury meets white denial, you have the combustible and fundamentally changed race relations we live in today.

Anyone who witnesses to the Grace of God revealed in Christ is undertaking direct assault against Satan's dominion.

To be busy is man's only happiness.

I never imagined being able to make money from acting - and now I can.

A life filled with opportunities and encouragement finds more and more opportunities and encouragement, and success becomes inevitable.

A poet must learn to wage war.

To be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied.

Disneyland is a work of love.