Helen Reddy arrived in New York in 1966 with her three-year-old daughter, a suitcase, and $230 in her pocket. She was bankrupt within weeks. She fell in love after only a few months. Within five years, she had become one of the biggest performers of her generation and a symbol of the feminist movement in the 1970s, having written a song that inspired a generation of women to fight for change.
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Helen Reddy arrived in New York in 1966 with her three-year-old daughter, a suitcase, and $230 in her pocket. She was bankrupt within weeks. She fell in love after only a few months. Within five years, she had become one of the biggest performers of her generation and a symbol of the feminist movement in the 1970s, having written a song that inspired a generation of women to fight for change.
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