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Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

Even at al my mother's concerts, I had never seen people go crazy the way they did with the Beatles.

My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.

The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.

Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.

Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse.