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.
BETTY FORDA 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.
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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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.
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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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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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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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Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
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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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I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.
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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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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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I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn’t be so outspoken.
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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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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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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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