Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

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.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

I want to reclaim who I am.

Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.

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.

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

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.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

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.

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.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

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.

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

Almost everybody embraces life.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.