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
real cost matter
Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.
real real-life
I come out of real life.
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.
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.