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.
You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone. - Betty Ford
You can make it, but it's easier if you don't have to do it alone.
- Betty Ford
I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do. - Betty Ford
I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.
Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry. - Betty Ford
Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.
Being a lady does not require silence. - Betty Ford
Being a lady does not require silence.
That's what we're here on this Earth for, to help others. - Betty Ford
That's what we're here on this Earth for, to help others.
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
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 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
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.
I don't look at what I've lost. I look instead at what I have left. - Betty Ford
I don't look at what I've lost. I look instead at what I have left.
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
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?
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