Maybe California Lyrics

Lyric discussion by radiohead33 

Cover art for Maybe California lyrics by Tori Amos

on NPR tori said this song was the result of talking to women who were sane and not crazy, but had considered suicide. She said that these women, married women, as a result of their husband losing a job, and trouble in the marriage, and the fact that the husbands self worth was suffering, that they thought the only solution to all that pain and suffering was to as tori put it "take themselves out of the picture", or kill themselves. I am curious as to if this is modern day women, she is talking about, or women of the past?