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BETTY FORD It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old.... BETTY FORD Have a nice trip, Dick. BETTY FORD The process turns you off, and it's got to where I don't even know who's lying and who's telling the... BETTY FORD If you go out to dinner with someone, you find out what they prefer in food. We ought to be able to ... BETTY DODSON 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