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

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

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

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

" I was born in a blender. "

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

" Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment. "

" When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends. "

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

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

Looking Forward

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door. "

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

" Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her. "

" When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest. "

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

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

" My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences. "

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

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

" 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. "