What a fun topic we’ve picked, @KateStantonSing ! I’m sincerely looking forward to this. These queens are some of the most fascinating women in history.

Remembering Dolly. Born in a one-room cabin, one of twelve children. She never stopped writing. Notebooks by the bed, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, because a song might arrive anywhere and she was not going to miss it. And she gave it away. The Imagination Library started because her father never learned to read, and she called it one of the things she was proudest of in her whole career. Not the records. The books. Courage, work, and kindness, in one person, for sixty years. She wrote "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You" in the same day. The same day.