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

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?

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

My two great loves are music and horses.

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

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.

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