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.
Helen ReddyI 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.
Helen ReddyI 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.
Helen ReddyWomen today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
Helen ReddyI 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.
Helen ReddyA lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.
Helen ReddyIt 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.
Helen ReddyI thought Erica Jongs Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that Ive ever read in my life.
Helen ReddyStopping at her house is a neighbor boy with evil on his mind, cause he's been peeking in Angie's room at night through her window blind.
Helen ReddyI always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.
Helen ReddyIf you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.
Helen ReddyThere is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.
Helen ReddyIt 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.
Helen ReddyI 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.
Helen ReddyI 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.
Helen ReddyMost of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.
Helen ReddyI think that two people who decide to live together in a marriage situation, they have an obligation to make the marriage work for them.
Helen ReddyMy 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.
Helen ReddyThe most exciting thing about women's liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.
Helen ReddyI 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.
Helen ReddyIf 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!
Helen ReddyYou can bend but never break me. Cause it only serves to make me more determined to achieve my final goal.
Helen ReddyI am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.
Helen ReddyI'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.
Helen ReddyMy 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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