Helen Reddy Quotes


"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
(Related: Family, Time, Women, Successful, Career, Woman)

"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
(Related: Life, Thought, Fear, Flying)

"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
(Related: Control, Exercise)

"I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Work, Husband)

"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
(Related: Marriage, Work, People, Obligation)

"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."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Thought, Being, Numbers, Parents, Production)

"I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage."
- Helen Reddy
"I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small."
- Helen Reddy
"If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Woman)

"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
(Related: Business, Work)

"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
(Related: People, Girlfriends, Hollywood)

"In the '50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Wedding, Day, Girls)

"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
(Related: Children, Conversation, Pen, Public)

"I like music to soothe me."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Music)

"I had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Career, states, United, Years)

"I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Cause, Problems)

"I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Music)

"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
(Related: Legal, Marriage, Quality)

"I am woman, hear me roar."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Woman)

"I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Numbers, Woman)

"I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Trying, Years)

"Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Fact, Hindsight)

"Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Time, Depression, Waste)

"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
(Related: People, Artist, Living)

"A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Women, Appearance, First)

"Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Business, People)

"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
(Related: Music, Balance, Chaos, Order)

"Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!"
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Population, World)

"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."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: People, American, English, Hell)

"You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Man)

"Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Health, Problems, Yoga)

"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
(Related: Women, Career, Day, Hate, Law, Mail, School, Song)

"There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Being, Magic, Waiting)

"There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Music, Wealth, Being)

"Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Age, Time, Day, Living)

"Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Politics, Questions, Years)

"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
(Related: Music, People, Baby, Being, Forget, Population)

"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
(Related: People, Kids, Now, Years)

"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
(Related: Women, America, Company, Talk)

"Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it."
- Helen Reddy
(Related: Marriage, Women, Today)