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Elizabeth Edwards

Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards (July 3, 1949 – December 7, 2010) was 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.

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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.

Cutout, Father, Living, Two, Utter, Years

I do know that when my children are older and telling their own children about their grandmother, they will be able to say that she stood in the storm. . . and when the wind did not blow her way - - and it surely has not - - she adjusted her sails.

Blow, Children, Grandmother, Stood, Way

Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.

Dying, Push, Start, Things, Yesterday

The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.

Able, Days, Know, Like, Patience, Strength

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

Know, Knows, Sick, Unless

I have a husband who adores me.

Adore, Adores, Husband

At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.

Bush, Country, Mandela, Office, President, Public

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.

Knows, Place, Politician, Politicians, Somebody, Time

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

Adventure, Blow, Sails, Storm, Wind

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

Husband, Name, Names, Son, Take, Took

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.

Children, Father, Living, Takes, Three

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

Children, Frank, Life, Losing, Thinking

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

Cancer, Given, Life, Winning

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

Accepting, Good, Reality, Resilience

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.

Believe, Cancer, Enlighten, Promise, Right, Thing

The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is knowledge. As such it becomes a metaphor of power, having the ability to appropriate and decontextualize time and space and those who exist within it.

Boundaries, Constrains, Metaphor, Microcosmic, Power, Space

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

Know, Knows, Marriage

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

Row, Sad, Sad Story, Stories, Wears

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

Agreement, Changed, Fight, Fighting, Law, Recovering

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Matter, Miserable, Part, Resilience

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