"My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says..." - Quote by Dolly Parton

“Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success.”

“I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.”

“I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.”

“A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter replied that he made his pictures by day, and his children by night.”

“We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco.”

“All day long, they lie in the sun, and when the sun goes down, they lie some more.”

“This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.”

“One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.”

“Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”