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Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

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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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I hope I have important things to say.
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Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.
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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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You don't have to be perfect you just have to be open.
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I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.
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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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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'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
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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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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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A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it's going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that's a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you're going to actually live.
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By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
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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 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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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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In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
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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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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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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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The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.
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