Quotes from Dolly Parton

I've had enough fighting I'm more into righting What's wrong when it's broken apart Demons, demons, we both had enough of our own Demons, demons, we don't have to fight them alone

It would be better to have a new enemy, wouldn't it, instead of an old one? The demons of the past were the hardest to slay.

I'm back where I started, she marveled. But now everything's different.

The way I see it, if you want a rainbow you have to put up with the rain.

You don't even have to believe in anything to be good to people. You should just know you should be a good human being.

crowd holding its breath. I'll be fightin' til I'm six feet underground Her eyes were squeezed

So here I was trying to get married to a man who hadn't really asked me, with a boss that didn't want me to and a town that wouldn't let me do it when I wanted. Yet I knew in my heart it was right.

Get down off 'at cross; Somebody needs the wood!

If you don't like th road your walking, start paving anotheer one

If you want to make it in this town, being talented is just one little tiny part of the battle. Fearlessness is mandatory. And shamelessness sure as hell don't hurt.

Sometimes chivalry is just nice,

Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be.

When I discovered that there was actually a thing called a push-up bra, that, to me, had to be equal of the day Einstein figured out that relativity thing.

I look back on all that now, and I realize this helped to build my character. It helped me build my own strength. So even the bad times were good. There were good times as well as bad times. But that's how memories are made, and that's why I'm sitting here today.

It's like a battery that has to have a positive and a negative. One doesn't work without the other. You've gotta have the good and the bad in order to know what's right, and in order to know what's real and what ain't.

She'd kept too many secrets and abandoned too many people, and that wasn't even the worst of it.

She cared so much about her words, her creative expression, when what mattered to everyone else was the bottom line.

Ruthanna said, her interest piqued. Maya shook her head

Because books, my friends, are true magic bound between two covers.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.

I strengthen the muscles around my heart, but I can't harden it.

Is it easy? She sang to herself. No it ain't can I fix it? No I can't

Is it easy? She sang again. No it ain't. Can I fix it? No I can't. But I sure ain't gonna take it lyin' down

When a girl didn't have anyone to stand up for her, that girl had to stand up for her own damn self. She didn't expect that hunky Ruthanna groupie to understand. "Your shoes look like they could kill a person, Ruthanna," AnnieLee said, giggling. Ruthanna kicked out a leg to show off a pointy-toed stiletto. "They're killing me," she said. Then she brushed a red-gold curl away from her cheek and said, "I like you.