"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."

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"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."

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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

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"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."

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"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

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"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."

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"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."

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"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

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"My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled."

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"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

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"Don't say negative things about your spouse and children."

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

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

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"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."

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"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."

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

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

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

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