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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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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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Tabloid news is tabloid news.
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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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Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
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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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Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.
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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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Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
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Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
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I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
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I come out of real life.
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You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.
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You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
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I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
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I have a husband who adores me.
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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 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 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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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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I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.
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