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I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.

Betty Buckley

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.

If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.

Betty Buckley

Rest

Semantics

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

Betty Buckley

Purpose

Girls

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.

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.

Betty Buckley

Privilege

Racism

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

Betty Buckley

Performance

Focus

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'

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?

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.

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.

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

Betty Buckley

Being

Well, the teacher I studied with for nineteen and a half years was a man named Paul Gavert. He was a great lieder singer, so basically I'm a trained lieder singer because of that teacher. The teacher I currently study with - since 1995 - is Joan Lader, who also studied with Gavert.

My two great loves are music and horses.

Betty Buckley

Music

Horses

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

Betty Buckley

Opportunity