Elizabeth Edwards
Elizabeth Edwards
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwardswas an American attorney, a best-selling author and a health care activist. She was married to John Edwards, the former U.S. Senator from North Carolina who was the 2004 United States Democratic vice-presidential nominee...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth3 July 1949
CityJacksonville, FL
CountryUnited States of America
perfect
You don't have to be perfect; you just have to be open.
worried happens
I'm not worried about me or what's going to happen to me.
cancer shoulders shakes
In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.
changes-over-time
Maybe we all change over time.
heart grieving years
My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.
jobs medicine research
My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
mother children stories
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.
young-parents parent energy
I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.
dies
We're all going to die.
sick knows
You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.
politician knows
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.
nice believe views
He seems like a nice charming guy. [Mike Huckabee] doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city—we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me.
real cost matter
Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.
powerful champion needs
Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.