Lorna Luft

“A star needs all the rest she can get.”

“It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.”

“Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.”

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

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

“The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.”

“My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.”

“The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?”

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

“Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.”

“I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.”

“When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.”

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

“A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.”

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

“Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.”

“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.”

“My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.”

“Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good enough for her.”

“One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.”