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[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

I’m really in awe of the way Dolly Parton came from such a poor background and she rightly wasn’t ashamed of it, she talked about it all the time, wasn’t apologetic about it and though she has this enormous mainstream success, she honoured the culture and community she came from, supported the area, and people’s lives, with the books, the theme park, and all the other giving. It’s incredible.
People often talk about ‘being yourself’ but I think it has sometimes been warped into an excuse to be selfish, whereas she made kindness and decency a fundamental part of being true to herself. It’s really inspiring. A great, great lady.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Dolly Parton International Airport in Nashville will be the first international commercial airport in the United States to be named after a woman.

[Monte Syrie @MonteSyrie]

It’s cool to like Dolly Parton.

And I am so glad that so many of us did.

But it’s cooler to act like Dolly Parton.

I hope more of us will.

We can all do better.

[dannica @dannarebb]

all of the stories of children mourning Dolly specifically because they know her as “the lady that sent them books” have me tearing up. what a legacy

[Fav @Favwontmiss]

Something that really messes me up about being a kid in the early 2000s was being a part of a generation that started putting up posters of kids of all colors holding hands around the globe, celebrating earth day in school by planting a tree or doing something mindful for the planet, and learning about caring for everyone and the earth. Genuinely that is how the future was shown to me and that's what I expected for us. None of it happened.

[CNN @CNN]

Last October, Dolly Parton gave her fans a health update.

In a video entitled "I ain't dead yet!," the singer explained: "Back when my husband Carl was sick, that was a long time, and then he passed, I didn't take care of myself, so I let a lot of things go that I should have been taking care of."

While that video update 10 months ago may have felt like a small detail in the life of one of America's most beloved musicians, it gives voice to a big problem immediately recognized by many of America's 63 million caregivers.

When you care for someone else, it is all too easy to neglect to care for yourself. https://t.co/JvuAjvEKMa

[🦋 @leftunsents]

the worst part about living with depression and anxiety for so long is how attached you become to your own suffering to the point where healing almost starts feeling more uncomfortable than being miserable. because sadness becomes the only thing that feels consistent in your life, and that kind of destroys your ability to trust anything good without fear attached to it

[ॐ𓋹𓂀༄ @_porruiz]

me siento terrible espero que sea la regla y no el vacío en el pecho que tengo desde los 13 años

[Devin Duke @sirDukeDevin]

Normalize asking billionaires why they aren't as generous as Dolly Parton.

[𝓢𝓵𝓪𝓶 👁️⃤ @slamwontmiss]

Dolly Parton says she once went through a period so dark, she understood why people turn to drugs and alcohol.

“Yes, I went through a bad period of time back in the ’80s when I was going through the change. I was having some female problems, family problems, emotional problems, and I was overweight. I didn’t feel good about myself at all, so I got myself in a pretty bad bind.”

“I understood at that moment how people get on drugs, how people get on alcohol, and how people can commit suicide. I didn’t do that because I kept praying, holding on to God, and hanging on to my friends.”

“No business thing has ever been able to get me that depressed. It has to be something very personal, either family or something during that middle-age change of life, when your hormones and everything are different.”

“I did have a very hard time, but God, praying, friends, and just trying to hang on helped me. Being Dolly, just being me, I thought, ‘Hey, either get off your fat ass and do something about it, or go ahead and blow your head off.’ And I thought, ‘Nah, I ain’t gonna do that.’”

“I believe God meant for me to go through that so I could completely feel for other people about everything.”

[7”🕊️ @Braceyoursef]

Sometimes you have to go on walk so you don’t kill yourself.

[blue @bluewmist]

every time you hesitate, someone less talented takes your spot. the world rewards audacity, not potential, confidence over cowardice

[Fat Slag @Andrewisliv111d]

Dolly just visited me I’m shaking

[Alan ✨🪩🎶 @K1TKATCLUBS]

People accusing Dolly of being evil because she MAYBE donated books to some Israeli children?

Maybe i’m not woke but if she did, i don’t think helping young children who can’t control where they are born is that big of a deal?? Like i am anti israel 100% but all kids need books

[Ashley Schendel @ashleyschendel]

More than 80,000 people have signed a petition to rename Nashville International Airport after Dolly Parton.

Dolly Parton International Airport sounds better than Nashville International Airport ever did. Tennessee should do it.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Thousands of New Yorkers woke yesterday to devastating news from home. Flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border has taken hundreds of lives, and the search for those still missing continues.

To our Nepali and Tibetan neighbors: this city knows what it means to grieve a place you left and still call home. You are not carrying this alone. New York City stands with you.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

I know this sounds corny and cringey and naive and whatever, but Dolly Parton felt like America when it was trying to be the place it promised to be.

[lacey ᥫ᭡ @stateoflace13]

in honor of Dolly Parton, for the love of god please read a book