Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
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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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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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I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
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I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.
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You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.
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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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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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Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with 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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Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
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You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
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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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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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In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.