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.
— Elizabeth Edwards
We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
I hope I have important things to say.
I'm not just a cuckolded wife.
I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.
I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.
Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
Tabloid news is tabloid news.
Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.
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.
If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.
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.
The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
I'm a puzzle doer.
I grew up in a Navy family.
Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
Maybe we all change over time.
I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.
I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
I come out of real life.
I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.
I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.
It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.
But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.
The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.
I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.
I think I did marry a marvelous man.
I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.
We're all going to die.
The military is already sexually integrated.
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.
I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.
I want to live.
I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.
I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.
A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined.
