![]() More recently, to my dismay, she’s been an outspoken Trump supporter. ![]() ![]() Some of her beliefs are strongly feminist, while others are quite jarringly dated. I learned a more nuanced picture over the years. When I first heard “The Pill” and pictured this 5’2 southern housewife singing about her sexual freedom, divorce, and faking orgasms to a very conservative 1970s bible belt, I thought she was a hero. She could not read or write very well, so she just picked up a guitar and started singing her songs, learned them by heart. The fact that she was married at 14 (!) and that she clawed herself up from rural poverty. Jim Reeves, Eddy Arnold, Nat King Cole, Patsy Cline, and, of course, Loretta Lynn. ![]() When I was younger, I would often stay with my great aunt on a weekend and she would play the oldies on this crackly little radio in her kitchen. ![]()
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