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.
BETTY FORDWe’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.
More Betty Ford Quotes
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Friends aren’t any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.
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The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
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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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Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
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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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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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I have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
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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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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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You can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.
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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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You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
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Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.
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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 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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