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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.

- Helen Reddy

Big, Over, Actual, Packaging

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

- Helen Reddy

Business, Need, Anybody, Aggressive

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.

- Helen Reddy

Believe, Contract, Any, Wholeheartedly

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.

- Helen Reddy

Couple, Whatsoever, Weeks, Department Store

I like music to soothe me.

- Helen Reddy

Music, Me, Like, Soothe

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.

- Helen Reddy

Career, Mail, Your, Law School

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

- Helen Reddy

Work, Survive, Meanwhile, To Survive

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!

- Helen Reddy

Here, Hollywood, Going, Girlfriends

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

- Helen Reddy

Wealth, Generation, Century, Twentieth

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.

- Helen Reddy

Listen, Hit, Companies, Group

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

- Helen Reddy

Most, Overview, Clears

I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

- Helen Reddy

Come, Been, Anybody, Conversation

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.

- Helen Reddy

Chaos, Sign, Classical, Classical Music

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.

- Helen Reddy

Bad, Singers, Took, Dreadful

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

- Helen Reddy

Some, Lot, Feminists, Women Are

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

- Helen Reddy

Women, How, Lives, Overview

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

- Helen Reddy

Here, Always, So Many Years, Believed

I was very strongly influenced by women's magazines and I really believed tha a woman could not be married and raise a family and have a successful career all at the same time.

- Helen Reddy

Woman, Career, Very, Believed

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

- Helen Reddy

Waste, Concerned, Far, As Far As

I am woman, hear me roar.

- Helen Reddy

I Am, Woman, Me, Hear

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

- Helen Reddy

World, Eat, Three-Quarters, Population

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.

- Helen Reddy

Work, Think, I Think, Obligation

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.

- Helen Reddy

Own, Bring, Albums, Homes

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

- Helen Reddy

Fact, Always, Very, Hindsight

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

- Helen Reddy

Politics, Me, Ask, Years Ago

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

- Helen Reddy

My Life, Thought, Read, Flying

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

- Helen Reddy

Music, TV, TV Commercials, Commercials

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

- Helen Reddy

Dirty, Find, Going, Socks

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.

- Helen Reddy

Think, Living, I Think, Earn

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

- Helen Reddy

Living, Stop, About, Worrying

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