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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day. "

" If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman. "

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" I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend. "

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" I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials. "

" I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work. "

" 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! "

" I like music to soothe me. "

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" You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore. "

" A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists. "

" To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for. "

" There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you. "

" I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here. "

" 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. "

" Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat! "

" 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. "

" Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive. "

" I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage. "

" 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. "

" I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small. "

" 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. "

" My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music. "

" Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact. "

" 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. "

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" Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview. "

" Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago. "

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" 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. "

" I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life. "

" There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it. "

" Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it. "