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 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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Friends aren’t any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.
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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 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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Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
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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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That’s what we’re here on this Earth for, to help others.
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Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.
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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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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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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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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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I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.
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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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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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