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• She was my closest friend. She was the one person, other than my husband, I could turn to in a crisis. There was a lot of resentment when I first came to town. But Patsy was strong-willed and always taking up for me. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I would have lasted.
  • Country Weekly staff writer (2002). "Loretta Lynn" CountryWeekly.com (accessded June 9, 2006)
  • On Patsy Cline

• I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.
  • Lynn, Loretta (2001). Coal Miner's Daughter (Reissue edition). Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-30-681037-9.

Attributed

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