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 FORDThe 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.
BETTY FORDI really didn’t want to have my name on the center, because it just seemed like it was too much of a personal thing.
BETTY FORDThat’s what we’re here on this Earth for, to help others.
BETTY FORDYou can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.
BETTY FORDAnd 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 FORDMy 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.
BETTY FORDI had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.
BETTY FORDIt’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 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.
BETTY FORDI 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.
BETTY FORDAny woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
BETTY FORDYou never know what you can do until you have to do it.
BETTY FORDI know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
BETTY FORDI 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.
BETTY FORDThe search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
BETTY FORD