How women helped me reach the top — and how I’m returning the favor

New York Post ^ | March 5, 2026 | Sophie B. Hawkins

[nickcarraway]

It’s 1992. I’m on tour for my hit single, “Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover,” off the album “Tongues and Tails.”

My band and I, including a woman drummer and percussionist, a woman keyboard player, and a woman background vocalist, arrive at the Old Vic theatre in Chicago.

The sound man hands me a note. It’s from Tori Amos, who also had a hit album out, “Little Earthquakes.” She writes to me that we shouldn’t be compared in the press. We are two unique artists, and she loves my album, especially the song, “Carry Me.”

I’ll never forget her kind gesture — and I’ll always pass on Tori’s magnificent, generous spirit toward women artists in the field. She stood up for our equal success.

[Lazamataz]

I’d hit it, just in case.

[subterfuge]

In a sane world this person would be shamed, shunned and mocked as the nutjob she is.