Quotes from Elizabeth Edwards

We're all going to die.

By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

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

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.

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.

I'm a puzzle doer.

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

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.

I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.

Almost everybody embraces life.

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

I have a lot that I intend to do in this life.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

I come out of real life.

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

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.

Maybe we all change over time.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.

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