Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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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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Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to these authors' experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired 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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Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.
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The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.
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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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By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
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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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We're all going to die.
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What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
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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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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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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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Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.
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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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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
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He seems like a nice charming guy. Mike Huckabee doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city—we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me.
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You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.
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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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I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
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It's just a part of our nature to hope.
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I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
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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.