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
running people brave
Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.
morning people get-up
I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
children blessing people
People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.
people great-hope dies
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.
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.
leave-me-alone trying respecting-others
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.
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.
husband thinking firsts
I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.