I feel it’s important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.
BETTY FORDI feel it’s important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.
More Betty Ford Quotes
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My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age. His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country.
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For 14 years, I’d been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I’d lost my tolerance for pills. If I had a single drink, the alcohol, on top of the pills, would make me groggy.
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I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that’s what I learned, it made sense to me. And I think it was kind of pointed out that you know if you were allergic to strawberries, you wouldn’t eat strawberries. And that made sense to me.
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You can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.
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Friends aren’t any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.
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You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
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That’s what we’re here on this Earth for, to help others.
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The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
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Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.
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We’re full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it’s difficult the first year.
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I have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
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I’ll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.
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Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
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I don’t feel that because I’m First Lady, I’m very different from what I was before. It can happen to anyone. After all, it has happened to anyone.
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I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.
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