Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.
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I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.
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I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
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Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.
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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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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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The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.
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If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.
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I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
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There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.
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Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
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Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.
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I want to reclaim who I am.
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We're all going to die.
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I think I did marry a marvelous man.
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Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
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It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.
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But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
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My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.
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Maybe we all change over time.
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Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.
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To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.
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I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.
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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.