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
achieve black hope society value white
What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.
real thinking people
The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?
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.
real shoes people
You know, I once read a short story about how much you could tell about people from their shoes. You could tell where they had been, what they did, whether they were real walkers.
important important-things
I hope I have important things to say,
mortality my-own
I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.
choices might different
I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
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.
this-life
I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.
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.