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My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

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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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Jacksonville
Florida
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards
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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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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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Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.
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Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
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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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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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It's more likely in America that your parents will file for bankruptcy than divorce. We think of divorce as so prevalent, but we all know that happens because somebody moves out of the house.
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Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.
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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 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'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.
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You don't have to be perfect you just have to be open.
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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 was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
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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 never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.
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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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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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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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I love children, love spending time with them I love getting things for them.
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