"I Am Woman" is a song written by Helen Reddy and singer-songwriter Ray Burton and performed by Reddy. The song first appeared on Reddy's debut album I Don't Know How to Love Him, released in May 1971. A different version, recorded for the film Stand Up and Be Counted, was released as a single in May 1972 and became a number one hit later that year, selling over one million copies. A song celebrating female empowerment, it became an enduring anthem for the women’s liberation movement.
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Famous quotes containing the word woman:
“The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that’s what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.”
—Adela Rogers St. Johns (1894–1988)