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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 Ford

When I say we’ve had an ideal marriage, I’m not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it’s all a couple has built on. We’ve had that and a whole lot more.
BETTY FORD

Couple Marriage Talking
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
BETTY FORD

Anticipation Business Sad Truth
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.
BETTY FORD

Alcohol Mind Thinking
And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, “What will you have to drink? Oh that’s right you don’t drink.” Just speak up and say, ‘Of course I drink. But I just don’t drink alcohol.’
BETTY FORD

Alcohol Course Patient Speak
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.
BETTY FORD

Denial Forget never Reactions
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.
BETTY FORD

Country Father Husband
Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
BETTY FORD

Alcohol Cooking Food
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
BETTY FORD

First Freedom Human Lady
Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.
BETTY FORD

Baby Grandpa Husband
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.
BETTY FORD

Different Firsts Happen Lady
I really didn’t want to have my name on the center, because it just seemed like it was too much of a personal thing.
BETTY FORD

Names Personal Thing Want
I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
BETTY FORD

Alcohol Knows Preoccupied Served
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 FORD

Empty Golf Life Swimming
Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
BETTY FORD

Abortion Legal Safe
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.
BETTY FORD

People Thinking Years
Friends aren’t any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.
BETTY FORD

Friends School Senior

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