Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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Maybe we all change over time.
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I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
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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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Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
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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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We're all going to die.
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My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
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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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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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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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By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
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Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
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Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
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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 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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Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
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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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You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
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Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.
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It's just a part of our nature to hope.
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In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
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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.