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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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Elizabeth Edwards
Age: 61 †
Born: 1949
Born: July 3
Died: 2010
Died: December 7
Attorney At Law
Attorneys In The United States
Lawyer
Teacher
Writer
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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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 actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
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I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
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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 was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
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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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In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
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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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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 hope I have important things to say.
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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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You don't have to be perfect you just have to be open.
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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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Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.
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I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.
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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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