Explore Quotes by Helen Reddy

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.

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.

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.

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

I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

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

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.

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

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

Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.

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

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

I thought Erica Jongs Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that Ive ever read in my life.

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

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.