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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.
Loretta Lynn
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Loretta Lynn
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: April 14
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Butcher Holler
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Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.
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My mother used to paper pictures from movie magazines on the wall of her bedroom. When I was born, she looked at those pictures to decide on a name for me. Claudette Colbert's picture was up there and so was Loretta Young's. She decided Loretta was the prettiest name, so I was named after her.
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I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.
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You're the reason our kids are ugly.
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I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
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There's always been a man telling me what to do.
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I refuse to be pushed around anymore.
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I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.
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My life has run from misery to happiness.
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I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.
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My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.
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I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
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I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.
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When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.
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Mommy smoked but she didn't want us to. She saw smoke coming out of the barn one time, so we got whipped.
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I came out the back of the building and I was hollering, 'I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry! I've sung on the Grand Ole Opry!'
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I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.
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Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.
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I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.
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