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If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
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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Teacher
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Jacksonville
Florida
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards
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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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In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
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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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Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
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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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Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.
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Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.
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I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
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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.
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I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.
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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.
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By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
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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.
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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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I hope I have important things to say.
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We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
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Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.
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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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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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