She (Judy Garland) was a friend of mine, a trying friend, but a friend. That is what I tell myself: She did everything she ever wanted to do. She never really denied herself anything for me. See, I say, she had a wonderful life; she did what she wanted to do. And I have no right to change her fulfillment into my misery. I'm on my own broom now.

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.

Don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream

I've decided that I am totally against jewelry. So I have all fake. There's no reason to have real diamonds. People think it's real anyway.

What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.

I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.

It's a waste of time to think about what I should have done and what I didn't. I really believe in that. That's how I react to the if-onlys of life. To moan and groan about something I shouldn't have done, could have done, might have done...who knows? It is what it is. You got what you got. I live my life one day at a time.