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By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

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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 you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.
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The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.
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Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
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It's just a part of our nature to hope.
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I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.
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I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
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At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.
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I want to reclaim who I am.
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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'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.
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I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.
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I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
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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.
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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.
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My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.
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To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.
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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.
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I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
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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.
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