They never said you can't do it because you're a woman, so it never occurred to me that I couldn't do it" But she says things are starting to look better for women composers.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

"I can do things that are good for me,you know, not just try to exist hand-to-mouth or in survival mode,you know?

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

"I think all of those things have accounted for the fact that the freefall did not continue and the economy is leveling off and we hope, improving into the next year,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

Our Tennis team here is very competitive and we do really good usually and it was a good opportunity for me to come here and do both of the things that I love,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

And,most are back to work. "But,I hesitate to say that things are back to normal because for those people that lost family members, it is really a life that will never return to normal,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

"And I think the same way you get credit for a lot of the good things that happen, sometimes you have to take the heat for things that go wrong, even though you were not personally responsible in any of the wrong doing."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21