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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.

Betty Ford

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
Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.
BETTY FORD

Baby Blessing Duty
That’s what we’re here on this Earth for, to help others.
BETTY FORD

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

Alcohol Cooking Food
I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.
BETTY FORD

Firsts Hate Lady Love
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
BETTY FORD

Anticipation Business Sad Truth
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
A housewife deserves to be honored as much as a woman who earns her living in the marketplace. I consider bringing up children a responsible job. In fact, being a good housewife seems to me a much tougher job than going to the office and getting paid for it.
BETTY FORD

Children Jobs Office
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 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 believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn’t be so outspoken.
BETTY FORD

Believe Citizens Rights
I have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
BETTY FORD

Independent Kind Streak
The problem with drugs is that people forget to stop doing them. There’s a time and a place for everything, Mr. Mackey, and it’s called college.
BETTY FORD

College Drug People

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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