 When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest. |
| Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother. |
| I was born in a blender. |
| Life will force ou to make changes you never wanted to make. |
| There is a time of reckoning in all our lives. |
| When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity. |
| The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me. |
| My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend. |
| I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping. |
| I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me. |
| Dinah had all the class. |
| Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles. |
| Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life. |
