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

Betty Ford

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
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’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
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
Friends aren’t any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.
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Friends School Senior
That’s what we’re here on this Earth for, to help others.
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Earth Helping Others
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.
BETTY FORD

Couple Marriage Talking
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.
BETTY FORD

Different Firsts Happen Lady
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
Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.
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Baby Grandpa Husband
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.
BETTY FORD

People Thinking Years
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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Children Feelings Years
I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.
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Firsts Hate Lady Love
You can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.
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Alone Easier Fear
Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.
BETTY FORD

Baby Blessing Duty
I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that’s what I learned, it made sense to me. And I think it was kind of pointed out that you know if you were allergic to strawberries, you wouldn’t eat strawberries. And that made sense to me.
BETTY FORD

Alcohol Mind Thinking

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

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