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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.

Betty Ford

Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
BETTY FORD

Alcohol Cooking Food
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
Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
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Abortion Legal Safe
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
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First Freedom Human Lady
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
BETTY FORD

Anticipation Business Sad Truth
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
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
Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.
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Baby Grandpa Husband
I have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
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Independent Kind Streak
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
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
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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Couple Marriage Talking
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
I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.
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Firsts Hate Lady Love
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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Children Feelings Years
Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.
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Baby Blessing Duty

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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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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