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The Conversation About Women’s Bodies Exists Largely Outside Of Us, While It Is Also Directed At And Marketed To Us, And Used To Define And Control Us. The Conversation About Women Happens Everywhere, Publicly And Privately. We Are Described And Detailed, Our Faces And Bodies Analyzed And Picked Apart, Our Worth Ascertained And Ascribed Based On The Reduction Of Personhood To Simple Physical Objectification. Our Voices, Our Personhood, Our Potential, And Our Accomplishments Are Regularly Minimized And Muted.

Tough Girls Come From New York. Sweet Girls, Theyre From Georgia. But Us Kentucky Girls, We Have Fire And Ice In Our Blood. We Can Ride Horses, Be A Debutante, Throw Left Hooks, And Drink With The Boys, All The While Making Sweet Tea, Darlin. And If We Have An Opinion, You Know Youre Gonna Hear It.

I've Been Devoted To Alison Krauss For Many, Many Years.

A Wonderful Pastor I Know Once Told Me, "perfectionism Is The Highest Order Of Self-abuse." So Now I Try To Remind Myself That If I Engage In Perfectionism, I Am Abusing Myself. Period.

People Say That To Me And I Think What Unites All My Characters Is That They Are Hurt; It's Most Accurate To Say I Play Characters That Are Hurt But Are Responding To Their Environment.