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
voice feet sometimes
Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.
children thinking losing
To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.
father vietnam gone
My father had gone to Vietnam.
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.
baby children thinking
If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.
children father three
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.
writing life-is bigs
Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
cancer believe promise
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.
children blessing people
People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.
husband wife faithful
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.
successful care reform
Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
cancer thinking intention
I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
thinking self humans
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
resilience matter miserable
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.