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 FORDThe search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
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Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.
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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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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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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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I have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
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The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
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Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
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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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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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You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
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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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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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Friends aren’t any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.
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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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