Quotes from Elizabeth Edwards

You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.

The worst thing to me would be that you put on the face you think people want to see, and then they don't like it and you think, Would they have liked the real me?

I'm not a victim - I never want to be perceived that way.

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.

I took my son's name. I didn't take my husband's name.

My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.

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.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way and it surely has not, she adjusted her sails.

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.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

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

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me.

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

I grew up in a Navy family.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

There is nothing about resilience that I can say that my father did not first utter silently in eighteen years of living inside a two-dimensional cutout of himself.