Betty Ford Quotes

Betty Ford (15)

Birth:	8th April, 1918
Death:	8th July, 2011
Nationality:	American
Profession:	First Lady

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• 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

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• 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

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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.

  Betty Ford

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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

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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.

  Betty Ford

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• I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.

  Betty Ford

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• But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.

  Betty Ford

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• 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

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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?

  Betty Ford

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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.

  Betty Ford

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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.

  Betty Ford

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• Isn’t that wonderful? When we drove through several of the places we lived – Grand Rapids, Washington – they all had those placards. That they stood by the street and had in their hands placards that said ‘Gerald Our Ford’. That meant so much to us as we were driving into Washington.

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• Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.

  Betty Ford

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• This is a place where you can go, that you can feel safe and look inside yourself and discover yourself.

  Betty Ford

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• The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

  Betty Ford

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