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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Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
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I hope I have important things to say.
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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'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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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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You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.
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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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It's just a part of our nature to hope.
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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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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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In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
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You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.
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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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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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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 had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.
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I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
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My father had gone to Vietnam.
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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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You don't have to be perfect; you just have to be open.
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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.