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" Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it. "
Helen Reddy
Women
Marriage
Part
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States. "
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" I like music to soothe me. "
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" Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age. "
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" I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems. "
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" I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage. "
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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. "
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" A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists. "
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" I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend. "
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" I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life. "
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" Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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America
Bad
" I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship. "
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Quality
" Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive. "
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" Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact. "
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Always
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" 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! "
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You
" 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. "
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Parents
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" My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids. "
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Now
People
Audience
" 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. "
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" You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore. "
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" Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist. "
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" Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat! "
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" Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago. "
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" I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials. "
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" Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview. "
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" 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. "
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" There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you. "
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