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" The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage. "

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

" My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland. "

" People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks. "

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

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

" My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior. "

" I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me. "

" Dinah had all the class. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Between them, my parents had 10 marriages. "

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

" A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone. "

" My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend. "

" I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic. "

" One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions. "

" I was born in a blender. "

" There is a time of reckoning in all our lives. "

" I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama. "