Betty Ford Quotes (19 Quotes)


    . . . a woman . . . told us she was forever getting herself into trouble. But I just keep coming back, she said. I just keep showing up for my life. Showing up for life. Being blessed with the rebirth that recovery brings.

    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.

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

    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.

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


    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.

    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.

    The process turns you off, and it's got to where I don't even know who's lying and who's telling the truth anymore,

    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.

    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.

    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.'

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

    I had thought I would hate being First Lady. . . . I loved it.

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

    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?

    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.

    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.

    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.

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


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