Helen Reddy quotes

Helen Reddy was an Australian actress and singer best known for her hit song "I Am Woman." She became a prominent figure in the 1970s music scene and a symbol of the women's liberation movement. She inspired generations with her powerful voice and message of female empowerment. Here are 59 of her quotes:

I am woman, hear me roar. (Helen Reddy)

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

Helen Reddy

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

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

Helen Reddy

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

Helen Reddy

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

Helen Reddy

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

Helen Reddy

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

Helen Reddy

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

Helen Reddy

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.

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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)

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

Helen Reddy

I like music to soothe me.

Helen Reddy

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

Helen Reddy

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

Helen Reddy

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

Helen Reddy

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

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

Helen Reddy

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

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

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials. (Helen Reddy)

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

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.

Helen Reddy

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

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

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Helen Reddy

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Occupation: Australian Actress
Born: October 25, 1941
Died: September 29, 2020
Quotes count: 59

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