I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.
BETTY FORDYou never know what you can do until you have to do it.
More Betty Ford Quotes
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The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
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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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Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.
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Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
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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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I have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
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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 can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.
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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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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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Friends aren’t any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.
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That’s what we’re here on this Earth for, to help others.
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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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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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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.’
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