You have to defend your honor. And your family.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

I fingerpick a lot because I can get more of a range of feeling from the guitar than I can when I bash away with a pick.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.