"Little by little, music gave me an identity, all mine, not just somebody’s daughter, sister or niece. Music gave me a profession. It brought me a great love and, when it ended, it filled the void with an incentive to live more fully as a person, not an appendix. It liberated me as a woman, it forged my independence of mind and spirit. Music stimulated my creativity and gave me a sense of confidence and inner serenity." Da un'intervista del febbraio 1983.

(Catherine Anahid Berberian, più nota come Cathy Berberian, mezzosoprano, compositrice, traduttrice; Attleboro, 4 luglio 1925 – Roma, 6 marzo 1983)