Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.

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

I've learned a lot about myself. Most of it is all right. When I add up the pluses and subtract the minuses, I still come out pretty well.

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

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

Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.

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.