I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.

I like so many different kinds of music that I've never allowed myself the limitations of one particular range.

I walk an 11-minute mile without huffing and puffing.

My arias make me take off as if I were on a trampoline.

I want to sing more in Spanish. I want to sing the songs of Granados; the songs of Montsalvatge. To do things that truly I've not done before.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.