Elizabeth Edwards
Elizabeth Edwards
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwardswas an American attorney, a best-selling author and a health care activist. She was married to John Edwards, the former U.S. Senator from North Carolina who was the 2004 United States Democratic vice-presidential nominee...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth3 July 1949
CityJacksonville, FL
CountryUnited States of America
muster our-lives
The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered,
mortality my-own
I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.
important important-things
I hope I have important things to say,
knows replaced
I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.
boys offering protection
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.
moving divorce thinking
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.
children thinking grieving
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.
adventure blow wind
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.
fighting reality resilience
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.
daughter mother jobs
My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.
positive attitude long
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.
strength patience able
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.
miscarriage boys wade
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.
positive meaningful hope
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.