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.

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.

I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

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

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

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.

I'm still an embryo with a long long way to go.