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I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.


Betty Ford

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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