Helen Reddy Quotes

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Helen Reddy

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 25, 1941

Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

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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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I think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.

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Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

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If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman.

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I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.

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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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A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

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In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.

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There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.

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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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I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

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I am woman, hear me roar.

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My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

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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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There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you.

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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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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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I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.

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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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