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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
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Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards
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By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.
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You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.
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Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
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The military is already sexually integrated.
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I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
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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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A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.
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If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven't done it right.
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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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You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
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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 was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
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I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine.
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We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
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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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Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.
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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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I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.
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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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