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You never know what you can do until you have to do it.

Betty Ford

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 FORD

Denial Forget never Reactions
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?
BETTY FORD

Alcohol Humor Makeup
I have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
BETTY FORD

Independent Kind Streak
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.
BETTY FORD

Names Personal Thing Want
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
BETTY FORD

Anticipation Business Sad Truth
Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
BETTY FORD

Alcohol Cooking Food
Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
BETTY FORD

Abortion Legal Safe
Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.
BETTY FORD

Baby Blessing Duty
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.’
BETTY FORD

Alcohol Course Patient Speak
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
BETTY FORD

First Freedom Human Lady
Friends aren’t any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.
BETTY FORD

Friends School Senior
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.
BETTY FORD

Country Father Husband
Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.
BETTY FORD

Baby Grandpa Husband
That’s what we’re here on this Earth for, to help others.
BETTY FORD

Earth Helping Others
I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.
BETTY FORD

Firsts Hate Lady Love
You can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.
BETTY FORD

Alone Easier Fear

You never know what you can do until you have to do it.

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