Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

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

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.

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.

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

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.

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

Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I grew up in a Navy family.

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

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

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

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

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.

Almost everybody embraces life.

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

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?

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 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.

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

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

My father had gone to Vietnam.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

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

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

You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.

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

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

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.

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

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