Betty Buckley

“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?”

“I'll tell you something: I am such an admirer of Glenn Close.”

“The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.”

“I had been on the TV show 'Eight is Enough' for four years. Working on a show like that is like working in a factory.”

“The practice of meditation can reveal to you more of your mental capacity.”

“I had gone to acting school for years. It was the kind of thing I had studied to do. I had worked with good coaches and trained to do this my whole life: to be a realistic actress capable of doing truthful work.”

“Theater is a gamble and a tough road.”

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

“I did an OK job in 'Carrie' but wanted to do better.”

“I've studied human psychology my whole life.”

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

“T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.”

“I'll tell you, in making film, especially when you're an actress, you're always worried about how you look on film, how they light you, always working with your camera people to be at your best, with the expectations of our culture that you always look perfect and beautiful and whatever.”

“Colin Cunningham just cracks me up.”

“So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn't believe it. The more I listened, the more I felt the need to express my passion about my identity as a feminist.”

“My mom was a lot of a stage mother.”

“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.”

“People who have suffered know more about compassion.”

“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.”

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