Quotes By Helen Reddy

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

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.

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.

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.

If 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.

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.

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.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

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