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" My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition. "

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" Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic. "

Looking Forward

" When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it. "

" The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American. "

" The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them. "

" To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits. "

" Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive. "

" Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows. "

" The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad? "

" There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on. "

" I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it. "

" My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt. "

" People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it. "

" When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity. "

" My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on. "

" A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman. "

" A star needs all the rest she can get. "

" When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent. "

" The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me. "

" Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life. "

" Dinah had all the class. "

" I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping. "

" One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms. "

" Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting. "

" Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her. "

" Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make. "

" Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles. "

" The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck. "