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 FORDI 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 FORDHaving babies is a blessing, not a duty.
BETTY FORDMy 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 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.
BETTY FORDWe’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 FORDI 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 FORDI had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.
BETTY FORDAnd 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 FORDI 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 FORDI’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 FORDThat’s what we’re here on this Earth for, to help others.
BETTY FORDAny woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
BETTY FORDYou never know what you can do until you have to do it.
BETTY FORDAlcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
BETTY FORDYou can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.
BETTY FORDThe search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
BETTY FORD