Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

A rhyme doesn't make a song.

A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.

In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it.

I don't care how good a song is. If it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers.