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

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

" My life has run from misery to happiness. "

" I've been married to the same man for all this time. The way we fight sometimes, you can tell. "

" I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do. "

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

" I ain't got much education, but I got some sense. "

" I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child. "

" I've seen country music go uptown, like we say, and I'm proud I was there when it happened. "

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

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

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

" Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me. "

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

" Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints. "

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

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

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

" How do you measure your value? "

" I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is. "

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

" 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'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way. "

" 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. "

" I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me. "

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

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

" I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me. "

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

" 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. "