I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not. — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
For 14 years, I'd been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I'd lost… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, "What will you have… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
I think once I made up my mind that I was allergic to alcohol, and that's what I learned, it made sense… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
It's 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… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
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… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
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,… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do. — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
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… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
This is a place where you can go, that you can feel safe and look inside yourself and discover yourself. — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
Holding these babies in my arms makes me realize the miracle my husband and I began. — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
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… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
