I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.
				If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.			
				
			Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.			 
			

