Betty Ford famous quotes

04-24-2025

That's what we're here on this Earth for, to help others.
-- Betty Ford

#Helping Others #Earth #Helping
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
-- Betty Ford

#Humans #Human Freedom
Having babies is a blessing, not a duty,
-- Betty Ford

#Baby #Blessing #Having A Baby
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
-- Betty Ford

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

#Independent #Independent Women #Kind
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 #Years #Feelings
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

#Thinking #Alcohol #Mind
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.
-- Betty Ford

#Different #Firsts #First Lady
Friends aren't any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.
-- Betty Ford

#Friends #Senior #School
I had thought I would hate being First Lady... I loved it.
-- Betty Ford

#Hate #Firsts #First Lady
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

#Golf #Swimming #People
The problem with drugs is that people forget to stop doing them. Thereâ€™s a time and a place for everything, Mr. Mackey, and itâ€™s called college.
-- Betty Ford

#College #People #Drug
Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began.
-- Betty Ford

#Baby #Husband #Grandparent
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 #Patient #Speak
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

#Makeup #Alcohol #Bottles
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

#Believe #Rights #Citizens
When other women have this same operation, it doesn't make any headlines. But the fact that I was the wife of the President put it in headlines and brought before the public this particular experience I was going through. It made a lot of women realize that it could happen to them. I'm sure I've saved at least one person maybe more.
-- Betty Ford

#Cancer #Wife #President
Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
-- Betty Ford

#Alcohol #May #Littles
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

#Denial #Never Forget #Reactions
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.
-- Betty Ford

#Hands #Driving #Wonderful
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

#Recovery #Years #Understanding
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

#Thinking #Years #People
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

#Names #Want #Too Much
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

#Marriage #Couple #Talking
You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.
-- Betty Ford

#Fear #Easier
Being a lady does not require silence.
-- Betty Ford

#Silence #Doe
I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
-- Betty Ford

#Alcohol #Alcoholics
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 #Husband #Father

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