Occupation: Former First Lady Of The United States Birth: April 8, 1918 Death: July 8, 2011
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..
Friends aren't any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior..
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?.
I don't look at what I've lost. I look instead at what I have left..
My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at ….
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,….
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 b….
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….
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 the….
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….
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 ha….
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 su….
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 cha….
I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not..
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..