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.

Usually, I fly in the day before a concert so your voice can acclimate to the new environment.

My two great loves are music and horses.

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

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically Im a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

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.