People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.
So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

