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’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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You never know what you can do until you have to do 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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Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.
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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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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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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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Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
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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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That’s what we’re here on this Earth for, to help others.
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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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I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
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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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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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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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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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