Loretta Lynn, country music icon, has died at 90

, the country music icon who brought unparalleled candor about the domestic realities of working-class women to country songwriting — and taught those who came after her to speak their minds, too – died today at her home in Tennessee. She was 90 years old.

"Our precious mom, Loretta Lynn, passed away peacefully this morning, in her sleep at home at her beloved ranch in Hurricane Mills," her family said in a statement. Born Loretta Webb, the singer was raised in a remote coal mining community in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky. She was barely a teenager when she started a family of her own with a 21-year-old former soldier, Oliver Lynn, better known as"Mooney" or"Doolittle."

One of the biggest songs of her career,"Coal Miner's Daughter," proudly recounted her hardscrabble background. And while country songs had often portrayed hardship from male perspectives, Lynn wasn't afraid to spell out the indignities she endured in her marriage, or the double standards she saw other women facing when it came to divorce, pregnancy and birth control, throughout the course of her 60-year career.

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