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" I know what it's like to be pregnant and nervous and poor. "

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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. "

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

" We still lend our old house out to relatives. They keep a guest book for my fans to sign. "

" There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man. "

" Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him. "

" I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music. "

" You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do. "

" I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18. "

" I want more out of life than I've gotten. "

" The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch. "

Getting Married

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

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

" I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition. "

" 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. "

" Once in a while I get inspired and finish my act with the hillbilly hoedown. "

" I never rode in an automobile until I was 12. "

" I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying. "

" I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody. "

" You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess. "

" We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean. "

" In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent. "

" 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. "

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

" I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair. "

" I believe in education and wish I had a better one. "

" I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers. "

" I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me. "