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It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.
Elizabeth Edwards
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Elizabeth Edwards
Age: 61 †
Born: 1949
Born: July 3
Died: 2010
Died: December 7
Attorney At Law
Attorneys In The United States
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Jacksonville
Florida
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards
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If I had lost a leg, I would tell them, instead of a boy, no one would ever ask me if I was 'over it'. They would ask me how I was doing learning to walk without my leg. I was learning to walk and to breathe and to live without Wade. And what I was learning is that it was never going to be the life I had before.
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If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
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I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.
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I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
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Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.
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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.
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I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
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Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
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Concentrate on the things that matter to you.
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I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm...and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.
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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.
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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.
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I love children, love spending time with them I love getting things for them.
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Maybe we all change over time.
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Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.
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... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.
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You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
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The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.
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I have a husband who adores me.
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I want to reclaim who I am.
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