Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

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?

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

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.

It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.

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

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.

There are no bystanders in a dharmayudh - it is a holy war.

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

Cherish the good, learn from the bad

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

Trust is congruence between what you say and what you do.

One key symptom of alcoholism is that the individual comes to need a drink for every mood-one to calm down, one to perk up, one to celebrate, one to deal with disappointment, and so on.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.