<P> Reddy credits the song as having supernatural inspiration . She said: "I remember lying in bed one night and the words,' I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman', kept going over and over in my head . That part I consider to be divinely inspired . I had been chosen to get a message across ." Pressed on who had chosen her, she replied: "The universe ." The next day she wrote the lyric and handed it to Australian guitarist Ray Burton to put it to music . </P> <P> Burton, 26 at the time and playing in Los Angeles with Australian rock band The Executives (and later the founding member of Ayers Rock), was a friend who had often worked with Reddy in live venues across Australia . He has a different recollection of the song's beginning . He told Sunday Magazine he spoke to Reddy after she hosted a series of regular women's meetings at which he says they would "sit around and whine about their boyfriends". </P> <P> I said to Helen,' If you're so serious about the whole thing, why don't you jot down some lyrics and I'll make it a song?' And that's pretty much what happened . She gave me lyrics scribbled down on a piece of paper and I went home that Sunday night and wrote the whole song in about three hours . Her lyrics were more in prose or poetic form, so I rewrote a few bits of it . I had a bit of a melody in my head anyway, so I reconstructed it, then moulded the lyrics to fit that melody . I did a demo on x Revox reel - to - reel tape . She really liked it and she recorded it on an album for Capitol Records . I never thought of it as being one of my better songs . It had commercial potential and I knew the women's lib thing was bubbling and coming to the boil in the U.S.A. . The life of a songwriter from Australia in Los Angeles was not very lucrative, so I figured it was a way to make a few dollars and up the quality of my life . I had a hunch that it was bound to be a hit . Then it went on the Capitol album and just sat there as a "sleeper" and I thought,' Well, maybe I was wrong' . </P> <P> Reddy insists Burton didn't change a word of the lyrics . </P>

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