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

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

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make.

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

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

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

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 life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

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

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

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.

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.

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

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

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

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