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

I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.

Love is the reason you were born.

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

The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.

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.