Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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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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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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Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
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You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
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To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.
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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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Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.
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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.
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Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
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I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
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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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The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.
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If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.
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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.
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Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
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My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
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I want to reclaim who I am.
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I hope I have important things to say.
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At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president George W. Bush would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.
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You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.
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In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
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I grew up in a Navy family.
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I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.