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

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" I like music to soothe me. "

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

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

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

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time. "

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

" I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems. "

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

" Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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