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 FordRead
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.
Interpretation
Recognizing a harmful substance allows one to avoid it, similar to being allergic to something.
In this quote, Betty Ford emphasizes the clarity that comes from understanding one's relationship with alcohol. By comparing her situation to a food allergy, she highlights the importance of awareness and personal decisions in maintaining health and wellbeing.
In practice
This quote can be used in a health seminar to discuss addiction.
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.
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.
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.'
Being a lady does not require silence.
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.
I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.
A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages. It isn't a gift of birth, wealth, talent or station. It is the result of your own endeavor. It is the reward that comes from living good principles and manifesting a virtuous and honorable life.
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
The rains of Life's Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.
When the uncarved wood is split, its parts are put to use. When the sage is put to use, he becomes the head.
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