Fire in the Rain...Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography

“What is the word for a friend who shares a holistic and revolutionary perspective on the world; who is simultaneously humbled and empowered by music and dance, film, and art; who has seen my weakest moment and strongest self only to love me more; who has been or is or could be a lover and yet it doesn’t define the friendship; who strives for a coming together of all that is woman including the part of us that is man; and who stands in the wings ready to held her friend, the singer?”

“Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.” And “Instead of being aggravated that we haven’t become mainstream enough or thinking we’re not needed once the mainstream has what we looked at fifteen years ago, it is simply time for the cutting edge to move on. And we are. We did what we set out to do . . . we moved the world forward . . . and that being a task never completed, we are not finished.”

“Women had been too successful and the right wing was raising its head hard and heavy against the new order being embraced by both nuclear and nontraditional families. Equal pay, child car, support of women on welfare, better education and health services, intervention in domestic violence, sex education, safer birth control, lesbian rights, programs to stop rape, criticism of pornography, shutting down the sale of dangerous baby formulas being sold to Third World mothers, opening up drug and alcohol clinics for our children, and expanding low income housing were among the issues that women worked for in the seventies and eighties while Reaganomics pulled the rug viciously out from under our feet. “