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Friends aren’t any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.

Betty Ford

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?
BETTY FORD

Alcohol Humor Makeup
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.
BETTY FORD

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

Alcohol Cooking Food
Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
BETTY FORD

Abortion Legal Safe
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
BETTY FORD

Anticipation Business Sad Truth
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.
BETTY FORD

People Thinking Years
I have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
BETTY FORD

Independent Kind Streak
You can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.
BETTY FORD

Alone Easier Fear
I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.
BETTY FORD

Firsts Hate Lady Love
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
BETTY FORD

First Freedom Human 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.
BETTY FORD

College Drug People
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.
BETTY FORD

Alcohol Mind Thinking
Friends aren’t any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.
BETTY FORD

Friends School Senior
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
Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.
BETTY FORD

Baby Blessing Duty
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.
BETTY FORD

Denial Forget never Reactions

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