Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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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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I think I did marry a marvelous man.
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Maybe we all change over time.
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I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
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Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
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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 am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.
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I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
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Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
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You don't have to be perfect; you just have to be open.
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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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Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
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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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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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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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My father had gone to Vietnam.
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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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Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
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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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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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I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.
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I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.
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Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
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You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.