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 FORDI’ll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.
More Betty Ford Quotes
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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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You can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.
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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.
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Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
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I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
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