It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

Ford was noted for raising breast cancer awareness following her 1974 mastectomy and was a passionate supporter of and activist for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Elizabeth Ann Bloomer Warren "Betty" Ford (April 8 1918 – July 8 2011) was First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977 during the presidency of her husband Gerald Ford.