I Support Love Any Healthy Way You

I've Never Had A Very Quiet Voice. I Tried In Choir To Make It Smaller, And It Just Didn't Work Out. And I Listened To A Lot Of Soul Music When I Was Growing Up On My Own Accord. But I Was Mostly Into Mama Cass And Gladys Knight, And They All Had Big Voices Too; Just Different Than Mine.

A Few Years Back, When My Style Was "punk Grandma", I Picked Up An Amazing Pair Of Sandals - Orthopaedic Ones, With Really Thick Soles. I've Given Them Away To A Friend Now, Because These Days My Look Is More "1980s Substitute Teacher Gone Wild."

This Archaic Idea - That A Woman Who Is Unmarried And Childless At 30 Is Somehow Unnatural - Will Probably Always Exist, And, Like Most Social Standards, It Is Ridiculous.

Aretha Franklin Was A Teenage Mom, A Musician Who Came From An Incredible Christian Background, And Where There Was A Lot Of Love, Which Is Really Inspiring In A Feminist Way.

You Know How People Love To Glamorize Poverty? There's Nothing Glamorous About It. But It Did Make Me Really Creative. Those Days, I Was Literally Taking T-shirts In The Day And Sewing Them Back Together To Make Dresses For The Night.