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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
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Teacher
Writer
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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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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Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.
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It's just a part of our nature to hope.
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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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Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
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Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
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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 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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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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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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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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My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.
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I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.
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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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The military is already sexually integrated.
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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 want to reclaim who I am.
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I hope I have important things to say.
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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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