I Feel It's Important To Be Active.

Isn't That Wonderful? When We Drove Through Several Of The Places We Lived - Grand Rapids, Washington - They All Had Those Placards. That They Stood By The Street And Had In Their Hands Placards That Said 'gerald Our Ford'. That Meant So Much To Us As We Were Driving Into Washington.

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.

I Have An Independent Streak. You Know, It's Kind Of Hard To Tell A Independent Woman What To Do.

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.