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
father years two
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.
mortality my-own
I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.
yesterday dying
Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
school college years
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.
husband son names
I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.
grief burden
Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
family long trying
I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.
gay gay-marriage comfortable
I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
stories sad-story
A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.
running people brave
Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.
children information difficult
By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
matter follow-your-passion things-that-matter
Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
inspiring graduation firsts
You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.
grief healing fixing
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?