Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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I grew up in a Navy family.
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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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I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
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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.
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We're all going to die.
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Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
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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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The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.
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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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I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
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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 want to reclaim who I am.
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Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.
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I think I did marry a marvelous man.
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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 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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Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.
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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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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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Maybe we all change over time.
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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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By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
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I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
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Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.