Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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I think I did marry a marvelous man.
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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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We're all going to die.
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
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My father had gone to Vietnam.
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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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Maybe we all change over time.
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By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
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A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.
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Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.
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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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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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It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
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I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
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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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I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.
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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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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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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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Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.
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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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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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Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.
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I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.