#mo

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

— Lorna Luft

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

— Lorna Luft

#children #forcing #into #moment #present

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

— Lorna Luft

#birth #death #forward #her #instead

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

— Lorna Luft

#ashes #being #disaster #expected #garland

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

— Lorna Luft

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

— Lorna Luft

#behavior #had #her #horrified #last

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. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#asked #awe #being #daughter #everyone

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#after #come #every #every time #humor

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. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#garland #judy #judy garland #me #memorable

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

— Lorna Luft

#cigarettes #cocktails #dressing #drinking #glamourous