You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.
Elizabeth Edwards
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.
Elizabeth Edwards
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.
Elizabeth Edwards
But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
Elizabeth Edwards
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.
Elizabeth Edwards
Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
Elizabeth Edwards
The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren’t able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It’s called being human.
Elizabeth Edwards
I’m not praying for God to save me from cancer. I’m not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I’ve done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I’ll be saved. And that’s all he promises me.
Elizabeth Edwards
Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
Elizabeth Edwards
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.
Elizabeth Edwards
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.
Elizabeth Edwards
Cancer is not a straight line. It’s up and down.
Elizabeth Edwards
I want to reclaim who I am.
Elizabeth Edwards
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.
Elizabeth Edwards
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.
Elizabeth Edwards
Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That’s brave.
Elizabeth Edwards
I’m a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.
Elizabeth Edwards
I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.
Elizabeth Edwards
Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
Elizabeth Edwards
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.
Elizabeth Edwards
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.
Elizabeth Edwards
If people think that you’re throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I’m not for that.
Elizabeth Edwards
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.
Elizabeth Edwards
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
Elizabeth Edwards
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.
Elizabeth Edwards
I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
Elizabeth Edwards
I took my son’s name. I didn’t take my husband’s name.
Elizabeth Edwards
Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
Elizabeth Edwards
I come out of real life.
Elizabeth Edwards
Tabloid news is tabloid news.
Elizabeth Edwards
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.
Elizabeth Edwards
I don’t know why someone else’s marriage has anything to do with me.
Elizabeth Edwards
I’m completely comfortable with gay marriage.
Elizabeth Edwards
The military is already sexually integrated.
Elizabeth Edwards
We’re all going to die.
Elizabeth Edwards
I don’t expect to get yesterday’s medicine. If I can help it, I’d like to get tomorrow’s medicine.
Elizabeth Edwards
I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.
Elizabeth Edwards
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.
Elizabeth Edwards
I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.
Elizabeth Edwards
I think I did marry a marvelous man.
Elizabeth Edwards
Maybe we all change over time.
Elizabeth Edwards
I’m not just a cuckolded wife.
Elizabeth Edwards
I’ve had experiences that, you know, really couldn’t be replaced.
Elizabeth Edwards
I hope I have important things to say.
Elizabeth Edwards
The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.
Elizabeth Edwards
I grew up in a Navy family.
Elizabeth Edwards
We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
Elizabeth Edwards
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.
Elizabeth Edwards
I’m a puzzle doer.
Elizabeth Edwards
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.
Elizabeth Edwards
You never know when something’s going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.
Elizabeth Edwards
I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.
Elizabeth Edwards
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.
Elizabeth Edwards