People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.
I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.
My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.
Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.
Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.
Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.
Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
I choose not to think of my life as surviving, but coping.
I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.
There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.
The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.
My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.
I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama.
Barry Manilow has gone from being the love of my life to being a friend for life.
Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.
Dinah had all the class.
Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.
