Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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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 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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Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
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I think I did marry a marvelous man.
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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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I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
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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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Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
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The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.
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By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
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Maybe we all change over time.
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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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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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... 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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I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
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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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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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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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I want to reclaim who I am.
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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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Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.
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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
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I grew up in a Navy family.