Quotes from Elizabeth Edwards

Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.

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.

People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.

Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.

I loved campaigning.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

I think I did marry a marvelous man.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

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.

... 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.

Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.