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 FORDI have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
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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I have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
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You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
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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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That’s what we’re here on this Earth for, to help others.
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I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.
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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.
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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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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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When I say we’ve had an ideal marriage, I’m not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it’s all a couple has built on. We’ve had that and a whole lot more.
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Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
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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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Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
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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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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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