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The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

Betty Ford

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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Alcohol Tolerance Years
Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
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Abortion Legal Safe
Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.
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Baby Blessing Duty
Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
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Alcohol Cooking Food
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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Empty Golf Life Swimming
I have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
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Independent Kind Streak
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
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First Freedom Human Lady
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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Denial Forget never Reactions
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
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Anticipation Business Sad Truth
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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Alcohol Course Patient Speak
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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Believe Citizens Rights
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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Couple Marriage Talking
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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Names Personal Thing Want
That’s what we’re here on this Earth for, to help others.
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Earth Helping Others
Friends aren’t any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.
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Friends School Senior
Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.
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Baby Grandpa Husband

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

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