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I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.

Betty Ford

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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People Thinking Years
That’s what we’re here on this Earth for, to help others.
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Earth Helping Others
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.
BETTY FORD

Alcohol Tolerance Years
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.
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Empty Golf Life Swimming
Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.
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Baby Blessing Duty
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
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First Freedom Human Lady
You can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.
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Alone Easier Fear
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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Different Firsts Happen Lady
I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.
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Firsts Hate Lady Love
Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
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Alcohol Cooking Food
Friends aren’t any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.
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Friends School Senior
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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Alcohol Mind Thinking
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
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Anticipation Business Sad Truth
It’s always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they’re about eighteen years old. If you haven’t made your points with them by then, it’s too late.
BETTY FORD

Children Feelings Years
My makeup wasn’t smeared, I wasn’t disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?
BETTY FORD

Alcohol Humor Makeup
I have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
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Independent Kind Streak

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