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

Betty Ford

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.
BETTY FORD

Believe Citizens Rights
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.
BETTY FORD

College Drug People
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
Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.
BETTY FORD

Baby Grandpa Husband
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
BETTY FORD

First Freedom Human Lady
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
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.
BETTY FORD

Empty Golf Life Swimming
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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Children Jobs Office
I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.
BETTY FORD

Firsts Hate Lady Love
Friends aren’t any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.
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Friends School Senior
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
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
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 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
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
Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.
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Baby Blessing Duty
That’s what we’re here on this Earth for, to help others.
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Earth Helping Others
Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
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Alcohol Cooking Food
I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
BETTY FORD

Alcohol Knows Preoccupied Served
Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
BETTY FORD

Abortion Legal Safe
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
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
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Anticipation Business Sad Truth
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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People Thinking Years
You can make it, but it’s easier if you don’t have to do it alone.
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Alone Easier Fear
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’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
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

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

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