Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.

I do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you're presenting.

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

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.

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

The military is already sexually integrated.

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.

Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.

I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm ... and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.

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.

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

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.

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.

I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.

I love my books.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

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

I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

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.

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?

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

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.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

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.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

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

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

You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.

I come out of real life.

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

I'm not just a cuckolded wife.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.

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

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

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.

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.

If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention
them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that
they died
you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What
you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and
... that is a great gift.

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.

Maybe we all change over time.

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.

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

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

I want to reclaim who I am.

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

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

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

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

I hope I have important things to say.

Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.

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

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.

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

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

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

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

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.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

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.

I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.

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.

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.

You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust the sails.

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

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

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.