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

Betty Ford

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

Friends School Senior
Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.
BETTY FORD

Baby Blessing Duty
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
BETTY FORD

Anticipation Business Sad Truth
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
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
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
That’s what we’re here on this Earth for, to help others.
BETTY FORD

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

Firsts Hate Lady Love
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.
BETTY FORD

Children Feelings Years
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.
BETTY FORD

Alcohol Tolerance Years
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 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
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
BETTY FORD

First Freedom Human Lady

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

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