Time & Perspective Quote by Chantal Kreviazuk

Kreviazuk’s line lands like a backstage aside that suddenly turns into a thesis about who gets to take up space. She’s talking craft, not vibes: “skills” and “crafts” pulls women out of the soft-focus zone of authenticity and back into the hard-light world of competence. The verb “revealing” does double duty, though. In pop culture, women are constantly pressured to reveal themselves in the literal, visual sense; Kreviazuk flips it toward artistic exposure, the risk of being heard, judged, reviewed, and ranked.

Her hedging - “maybe,” “perhaps,” “didn’t feel quite as comfortable” - reads less like uncertainty than strategy. It acknowledges that the old barriers were often informal, hard to document, easy to deny. No villain twirling a mustache, just an industry that trained women to self-edit before anyone else had to. The pause and ellipses mimic a musician searching for the right phrasing, which gives the claim an everyday credibility: this isn’t a manifesto, it’s lived experience.

Then comes the pivot: “and now we are.” It’s collective and present-tense, a small chant of arrival. “Out there, just like the guys” is intentionally plain, almost anticlimactic, because equality here isn’t framed as transcendence; it’s framed as normalcy. The subtext is pointed: the goal isn’t special treatment or a separate lane, it’s the unremarkable right to be evaluated as a working artist - publicly, loudly, and without apology.