If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure

• "If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul."
• "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
• "I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park!"
• "I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them. Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself."
• "God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple. And if someone doesn't believe what I believe, tough shit."
• "If something is bagging, sagging or dragging, I'll tuck it, suck it or pluck it."
• "It costs a lot to look this cheap."

RIP, Miss Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean (19th January 1946 - 25th August 2026)

There's big hair...

...and then there's Dolly hair!

All them other girls are mere amateurs in comparison...

Our Patron Saint of wiggery, Miss Dolly Parton is 75 years old today!

All hail.

Unlikely conversations, #548 in a series...

Elsa Lanchester and Ruth McDevitt


Kim Novak and Vampira


Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin


Dolly Parton and Henry Kissinger


Joan Collins and Liz Taylor

...wouldn't you just love to have been a fly on the wall?

Meanwhile, in Arizona...

Dolly Parton look-alike competition, 1979

One of the classiest photos from the new book Arizona Trips by British photographer David Hurn, as featured in today's Guardian.

Yee, Ha!

If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them

"If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul."

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

"I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park!"

"I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them. Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself."

"I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it."

Our Patron Saint of Rhinestones is seventy years old!

Many happy returns, Miss Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean (born 19th January 1946)

I just play leading roles

Dolly by Warhol.

Life is a show and the show will go on
The world is stage, loves an act we perform
There's always some new act somewhere up the road
And I'll always be starring in somebody's show

I don't play second fiddle in nobody's band
And I'm no back-up singer and I won't be a fan
And I'm nobody's co-star
I just play leading roles
And I don't want the part, don't want a part
Won't play a part unless it's star of the show

Dolly Parton (born January 19, 1946)

Cheap?

"God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're black, brown or purple. And if someone doesn't believe what I believe, tough shit."

"If something is bagging, sagging or dragging, I'll tuck it, suck it or pluck it."

"It costs a lot to look this cheap."

Dolly Parton

Read a fabulous interview with Miss Parton in The Guardian