Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
BETTY FORDHaving babies is a blessing, not a duty.
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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.
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I had thought I would hate being First Lady… I loved it.
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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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Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.
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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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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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Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.
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That’s what we’re here on this Earth for, to help others.
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The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
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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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I have an independent streak. You know, it’s kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
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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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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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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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