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> [Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-luft/instead-of-joyfully-looking-forward-to-my-birth-my-mother-began/)

[Lorna Luft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-luft/)

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## More by Lorna Luft

> [When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-luft/when-you-re-judy-garland-and-you-want-something-you-just-pick-up-the/)

[Lorna Luft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-luft/)

> [I'm extraordinarily honored and proud when I am told that I am part of the Broadway community and part of the Broadway family. Because,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-luft/i-m-extraordinarily-honored-and-proud-when-i-am-told-that-i-am-part/)

[Lorna Luft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-luft/)

> [My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-luft/my-mother-was-a-phoenix-who-always-expected-to-rise-from-the-ashes-of/)

[Lorna Luft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-luft/)

> [Every time I go out on a stage I consider myself very lucky. Because, in a time where people are economically thinking about what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-luft/every-time-i-go-out-on-a-stage-i-consider-myself-very-lucky-because/)

[Lorna Luft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-luft/)

> [Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-luft/between-them-my-parents-had-10-marriages/)

[Lorna Luft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-luft/)

> [Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-luft/sinatra-was-just-one-of-mom-s-friends/)

[Lorna Luft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-luft/)

> [When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-luft/when-i-look-back-at-the-judy-garland-show-i-have-such-mixed-feelings/)

[Lorna Luft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-luft/)

> [If you really want to kill yourself, you get a gun and blow your head off](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-luft/if-you-really-want-to-kill-yourself-you-get-a-gun-and-blow-your-head/)

[Lorna Luft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-luft/)

> [Dinah had all the class.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-luft/dinah-had-all-the-class/)

[Lorna Luft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-luft/)

> [I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-luft/i-have-a-healthy-body-free-of-the-chemicals-that-once-controlled-it/)

[Lorna Luft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-luft/)

> [When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-luft/when-your-parent-is-a-public-idol-you-never-really-have-a-chance-to/)

[Lorna Luft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-luft/)

> [When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-luft/when-my-mother-signed-at-mgm-that-was-the-only-kind-of-contract-you/)

[Lorna Luft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-luft/)

> [Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-luft/living-in-continual-chaos-is-exhausting-frightening-the-catch-is-that/)

[Lorna Luft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-luft/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-luft/one-of-the-oddities-about-being-judy-garland-s-daughter-was-that/)

[Lorna Luft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-luft/)

> [People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lorna-luft/people-come-up-to-me-as-i-leave-the-stage-after-a-performance-and/)

[Lorna Luft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lorna-luft/)

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