Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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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'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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I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with 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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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 think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
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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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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 was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
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By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
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You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.
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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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Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
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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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Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
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My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
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Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with 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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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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Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
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You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
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Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
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In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
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Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.