Helen Reddy Quotes

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

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.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

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

Stopping 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.

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.

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

Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.

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.

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.

You can bend but never break me. Cause it only serves to make me more determined to achieve my final goal.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

I like music to soothe me.

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.

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

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

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!

You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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