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.'


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If we all talked honestly about what's really happening in our sex lives, we'd realise that we're al...
BETTY DODSON
I used to think masturbation was not really sex because it only involved me. That's a very limited v...
BETTY DODSON
I like to see oral sex and manual sex and intercourse as foreplay for my vibrator sex.
BETTY DODSON
I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting ...
BETTY DODSON
I consider myself a lesbian, but I'm a bisexual lesbian.
BETTY DODSON
If we could grow up knowing that the genitals are beautiful parts of our bodies, we'd be proud, we w...
BETTY DODSON
I went through the '70s and '80s saying, I'm a heterosexual bisexual lesbian, and whenever I said th...
BETTY DODSON
If you are using your childhood masturbation technique, you are not developing sexually. We, of cour...
BETTY DODSON
I've spent the past six years with a young man, which was a nice break, dipping back into heterosexu...
BETTY DODSON
The integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All the champions have it.
BETTY CUTHBERT
No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m.
BETTY CUTHBERT
My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that ...
BETTY CUTHBERT
My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things ...
BETTY CUTHBERT
My favourite event was the 200m, so as I won the 100m, I thought it was possible I'd win the 200m.
BETTY CUTHBERT
I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to ...
BETTY CUTHBERT
Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.
BETTY CUTHBERT
I can understand how evolution says, "don't believe in God", but I've never had this problem. I've a...
BETTY CUTHBERT
I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.
BETTY CUTHBERT
I've always loved God, His creation, the plants, the trees and the animals. Mum went to church and s...
BETTY CUTHBERT
You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.
BETTY CARTER
This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is sca...
BETTY CARTER
If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a ha...
BETTY CARTER
If it wasn't for [pimps, prostitutes, hustlers, gangsters, and gamblers] there wouldn't be no jazz! ...
BETTY CARTER
The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way o...
BETTY BUCKLEY
The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights...
BETTY BUCKLEY
So, when the discussion about not using the term feminist came up at a conference workshop, I couldn...
BETTY BUCKLEY
Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
BETTY BUCKLEY
If we're for one another, we're feminists. The rest is semantics.
BETTY BUCKLEY
I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was una...
BETTY BUCKLEY
I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was th...
BETTY BUCKLEY
Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a b...
BETTY BUCKLEY
Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and shari...
BETTY BUCKLEY
There's a big need for speech-language personnel to meet the needs of (students).
BETTY ANDERSON
I had to have this purse. It was shaped like a big saddle with stirrups and everything.
BETTY ANDERSON
One fourth of the money stays here in Zanesville, going to Christ Table and the Salvation Army. The ...
BETTY ANDERSON
There was a big urn in the billiard room and it was black, but I wondered if it was brass.
BETTY ANDERSON
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss t...
BETTY SMITH
A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rath...
BETTY WHITE
I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, y...
BETTY SMITH
I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a pr...
BETTY FRIEDAN
If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal...
BETTY WHITE