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.

When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.

I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

I don't look at what I've lost. I look instead at what I have left.

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.

That's what we're here on this Earth for, to help others.