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" A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists. "
Appearance
Physical
Women
" Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist. "
Believe
Way
Myself
" Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time. "
Time
Depression
Just
" Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact. "
Easy
Always
Fact
" I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here. "
Here
Always
Get
" I am woman, hear me roar. "
I Am
Am
Me
" I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend. "
Me
Ignore
Know
" I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship. "
Relationship
Marriage
Quality
" I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business. "
Show
Work
Business
" I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials. "
Music
Music Videos
My Own
" I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry. "
Chaos
Balance
Music
" I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems. "
Someone
Cause
Person
" If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman. "
Am
Woman
Strong
" If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it. "
You
Forget
Made
" If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am! "
Laugh
People
You
" I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States. "
United
Career
Australia
" I like music to soothe me. "
Soothe
Like
Music
" I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage. "
Leave
Private Person
Stage
" In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day. "
Day
Beyond
Lot
" I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small. "
I Think
Small
Think
" I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them. "
Together
People
Marriage
" I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life. "
Life
Flying
Fear
" It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell. "
Feel
Hell
Me
" It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it. "
Me
America
Bad
" I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without. "
Children
Pen
Conversation
" I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label. "
Exercise
Me
Start
" I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work. "
Looking
Work
Survive
" I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time. "
Time
Women
Woman
" I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being a performer on my own until I was 12 or 13. "
Parents
My Own
Numbers
" Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive. "
Need
Business
Know
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