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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.
Lorna Luft

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.
Lorna Luft

My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.
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 me the normal questions kids get about their moms.
Lorna Luft

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

People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
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 time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.
Lorna Luft

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.
Lorna Luft

Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
Lorna Luft

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

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

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