Helen Reddy's Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.

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

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

I am woman, hear me roar.

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

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

I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.

I like music to soothe me.

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

I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.

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

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.

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

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

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