Loretta Lynn

“I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.”

“I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.”

“Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.”

“Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.”

“You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.”

“Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.”

“Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.”

“I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.”

“When all those city folks try to fix up my talking, all they do is mess me up.”

“Back then, we didn't know we were poor, and people were more proud then.”