You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.
— Elizabeth Edwards
I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.
My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
I loved campaigning.
My father had gone to Vietnam.
I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality.
By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.
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.
What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
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.
I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.
I do think voters do take into consideration - particularly early state voters - take into consideration a wide range of factors, including electability, and they know that part of electability is the total package that you're presenting.
You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.
Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.
Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.
I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.
My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.
Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.
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.
Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.
It's just a part of our nature to hope.
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
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.
I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.
I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.
You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.
I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
I want to reclaim who I am.
I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.
You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.
I love children, love spending time with them; I love getting things for them.
I love my books.
A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.
People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.
Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.
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?
In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.
My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.
I have a husband who adores me.
I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.
Almost everybody embraces life.
Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.
