Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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Almost everybody embraces life.
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A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.
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The military is already sexually integrated.
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If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
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My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.
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This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.
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I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
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By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
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I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
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We're all going to die.
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I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.
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You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
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Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.
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It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
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I think I did marry a marvelous man.
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... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.
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I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
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Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.
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I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.
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Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.
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Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.
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I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.
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The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.
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I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.