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?

We cant compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

My two great loves are music and horses.

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

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.

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.

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.