“Love is like a magnet.”
A self-professed non-feminist who wrote an anthem depicting the sexual revolution the pill would bring.
(Note: all Lynn quotes below are from the updated 2021 edition ofCoal Miner’s Daughter.)
They think of me as just a lady up on the stage, with a band backing her up.
After all, think you’re going to discover anyone better than Loretta Lynn?
The song also became Lynn’s first No.
Lynn told her, “‘Why, she ain’t woman enough to take your man!’
Just like that, as soon as I said it, I knew I had a hit song.”
I really believe in those words…
I think it’s great that women have a way of protecting themselves now, without a man."
Male DJs didn’t exactly get the song, but women immediately did, making it a huge hit.
I wasn’t trying to make a statement or fight for women’s rights.
I was fighting for me."
And with harmonizing like that, who could resist?
(Wells even makes a vocal cameo in the song.)
Dolly is from Tennessee, and when we get going, nobody can understand us."
She said of the record: “Country music wouldn’t play it.
They thought I was going too rock ‘n’ roll.
But it’s not.
It’s as country as anything I ever cut.”
