Aretha Franklin: "I'm a big woman. I need big hair."Tina Turner: "Physical strength in a woman...that's what I am."
Alanis Morissette: "What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are."
Liz Phair: "You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage."
Linda Ronstadt: "I have always believed that one learns more from failure than from success."
Sinead O'Connor: "You cannot be a poppy in a tsunami. The more delicate and fragile you are, the tougher you have to act."
Belinda Carlisle: "I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me."
Bonnie Raitt: "I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool."
Chrissie Hynde: "I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress."
Annie Lennox: "I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free."
Joan Jett: "Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything."
Maria Muldaur: "I've been told 'Midnight At The Oasis' has been responsible for the conception of more children than any other song of the 70's."
Cher: "The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing, and then marry him."
Stevie Nicks: "I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that."
