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Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.

Betty Ford

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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Alcohol Tolerance Years
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
That’s what we’re here on this Earth for, to help others.
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Earth Helping Others
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
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.
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Children Jobs Office
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
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Anticipation Business Sad Truth
Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
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Alcohol Cooking Food
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
I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
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Alcohol Knows Preoccupied Served
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.
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Names Personal Thing Want
I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.
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Firsts Hate Lady Love
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
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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College Drug People
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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Denial Forget never Reactions
Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
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Abortion Legal Safe
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

Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.

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