. . . 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. (Betty Ford)
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)
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women. (Betty Ford)
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)
This is a place where you can go, that you can feel safe and look inside yourself and discover yourself. (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)
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)
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, (Betty Ford)
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)
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)
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)
I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not. (Betty Ford)
I had thought I would hate being First Lady. . . . I loved it. (Betty Ford)
Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help. (Betty Ford)
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)