I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
From Betty Ford
The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
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?
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.
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 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.
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.
Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help.
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.
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