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- I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.
- 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.
- 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 had a career for 25 years in Australia before I ever came to the United States.
- Yoga is wonderful. It clears up most health problems. It also gives you an overview.
- I don’t think any one person is the cause of all of someone else’s problems.
- Three-quarters of the world’s population doesn’t have enough to eat!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Depression, as far as I’m concerned, is just a waste of time.
- Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.
- 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.
- Please don’t ask me any questions about the politics of 30 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.
- 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 am woman, hear me roar.
- I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.
- A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.