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

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

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

Looking Forward

" I was born in a blender. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Dinah had all the class. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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