I think that Dolly Parton was, for a lot of people, an ambassador of the "good" values people think of when they think of Southern culture: kindness, hospitality, generosity, can-do spirit, sharp and witty and down to earth.
Dolly Parton wasn’t only my favorite country singer but my fave actress! One of my favorite films that she was in was definitely Steel Magnolias, she was extremely beautiful in the movie :)
Imagine you write one of the greatest songs of all time, "I will always love you" and that alone is enough to have GOAT status. But then you do it again. And again. And again. And again. And then you make 9 to 5. And then you help millions of kids to read.
not to be metaphysical but dolly parton, despite her death, through her work is one of few people who kind of can't die. her impact in art and philanthropy will outlast all of us, and likely our children and children's children. that's the kind of immortality we should be chasing
please everybody do not forget how important dolly’s philanthropy towards impoverished & illiterate communities in the south & appalachia was. i’m so so heartbroken
Dolly Parton didn’t spend her dollars on space travel or a trip to the titanic because she was writing checks to put 150 million books in the hands of children.
dolly was for the kids without having children. she understood the necessity to care for the next generation regardless of if you gave birth or not unlike many. the realest through and through!
“I didn’t have children because I believed that God didn’t mean for me to have kids so everybody’s kids could be mine, so I could do things like Imagination Library, because if I hadn’t had the freedom to work, I wouldn’t have done all the things I’ve done."
Dolly has always just been Dolly. You heard her while growing up and now she’s just gone. Death is such a familiar thief, you expect it, yet somehow, you’re never truly prepared for it.