Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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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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... 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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The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.
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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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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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By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
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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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Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
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I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.
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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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My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
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A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.
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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'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
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You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.
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It's just a part of our nature to hope.
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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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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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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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Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.
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In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
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The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?
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You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
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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.