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 FORDThe search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
More Betty Ford Quotes
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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.
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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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You can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.
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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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Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.
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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.
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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.
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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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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?
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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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I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
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You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
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I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.
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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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Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
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