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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.

  • 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?

    Alcohol  
    Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1987). “Betty: A Glad Awakening”, Doubleday Books
  • You never know what you can do until you have to do it.

    Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1978). “The times of my life”, Ballantine Books
  • 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.'

    Alcohol  
  • 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.

  • Any woman should have the right to a safe and legal abortion.

  • I think it wasn't so much that the White House altered me in any essential way as that I found the resources with which to respond to a series of challenges. You never know what you can do until you have to do it. In the beginning, it was like going to a party you're terrified of, and finding out to your amazement that you're having a good time.

    Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1978). “The times of my life”, Ballantine Books
  • I don't look at what I've lost. I look instead at what I have left.

  • Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.

    Alcohol  
  • 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.

    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.

    "Former President Ford dies at 93", www.cnn.com. December 27, 2006.
  • You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.

    Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1987). “Betty: A Glad Awakening”, Doubleday Books
  • 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.

    Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1978). “The times of my life”, Ballantine Books
  • Friends aren't any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.

    Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1978). “The times of my life”, Ballantine Books
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self-it all comes down to a freedom of choice.

    "A Feminist? Definition Varies With the Woman", www.nytimes.com. November 8, 1975.
  • Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.

  • What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she's a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a nurse, a baby-sitter? But because of this, I feel women ought to have equal rights, equal Social Security, equal opportunities for education, an equal chance to establish credit.

  • 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.

    Years  
  • 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.

    Alcohol  
  • 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.

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

  • I don't feel that because I'm First Lady, I'm very different from what I was before. It can happen to anyone. After all, it has happened to anyone.

  • I've learned a lot about myself. Most of it is all right. When I add up the pluses and subtract the minuses, I still come out pretty well.

    Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1978). “The times of my life”, Ballantine Books
  • I had thought I would hate being First Lady... I loved it.

    Betty Ford, Chris Chase (1978). “The times of my life”, Ballantine Books
  • 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.

  • Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.

    "Former First Lady Betty Ford Dies at Age 93", www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2011.
  • Being a lady does not require silence.

    Address at the International Women’s Year meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, geraldrfordfoundation.org. October 25, 1975.
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    Betty Ford

    • Born: April 8, 1918
    • Died: July 8, 2011
    • Occupation: Former First Lady of the United States