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I think when it comes to women who write or who fancy ourselves 'hip downtown literati', there is a certain contempt for being overly sexual or really looking for boyfriends. We tend to be marginalized as some 'Sex & The City' Carrie Bradshaw chick-lit dummies who just want shoes and a ring.

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.

For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.

It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in the early '90s, there was a lot of violence at Bikini Kill shows that people don't realize happened.

We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you're in the media as a woman, or you're in the professions or business or politics.

Women are more fashion conscious and are paying a lot of attention to what's happening globally.

Most critics of gender division are women, and they're worried about girls and the roles presented for them by gendered entertainments. They are quite right to be. Telling girls that the cars and the guns are beyond their domain of expertise, and that they should content themselves with clothes and friendships, is limiting.

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.