Quotes from Lorna Luft

Although I loved Liza as a little girl, it would be true to say I really didn't know her.

I was born in a blender.

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.

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

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

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

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 choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.

I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.

Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

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.

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.