Top 40 Helen Reddy Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.”

— Helen Reddy

2. “I am woman, hear me roar.”

— Helen Reddy

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

— Helen Reddy

4. “You can bend but never break me. Cause it only serves to make me more determined to achieve my final goal.”

— Helen Reddy

5. “I’m still an embryo with a long long way to go.”

— Helen Reddy

6. “It’s so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.”

— Helen Reddy

7. “Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.”

— Helen Reddy

8. “The most exciting thing about women’s liberation is that this century will be able to take advantage of talent and potential genius that have been wasted because of taboos.”

— Helen Reddy

9. “Please don’t ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.”

— Helen Reddy

10. “Stopping at her house is a neighbor boy with evil on his mind, cause he’s been peeking in Angie’s room at night through her window blind.”

— Helen Reddy

11. “Hindsight is wonderful. It’s always very easy to second guess after the fact.”

— Helen Reddy

12. “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

13. “If I have to, I can do anything.”

— Helen Reddy

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

— Helen Reddy

15. “There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.”

— Helen Reddy

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

— Helen Reddy

17. “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

18. “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

19. “You’re not going to find a man whose socks don’t get dirty or who doesn’t snore.”

— Helen Reddy

20. “I thought Erica Jongs Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that Ive ever read in my life.”

— Helen Reddy

21. “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

22. “Three-quarters of the world’s population doesn’t have enough to eat!”

— Helen Reddy

23. “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

24. “Depression, as far as I’m concerned, is just a waste of time.”

— Helen Reddy

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

— Helen Reddy

26. “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

27. “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

28. “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

29. “Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.”

— Helen Reddy

30. “I’m a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.”

— Helen Reddy

31. “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

32. “I don’t think any one person is the cause of all of someone else’s problems.”

— Helen Reddy

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

— Helen Reddy

34. “I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.”

— Helen Reddy

35. “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

36. “In the ’50s, a lot of girls never saw beyond the wedding day.”

— Helen Reddy

37. “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

38. “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

39. “I like music to soothe me.”

— Helen Reddy

40. “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

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

— Helen Reddy

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

— Helen Reddy

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

— Helen Reddy

44. “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

45. “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

46. “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

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

— Helen Reddy