Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying. – Elizabeth Edwards
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. – Elizabeth Edwards
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. – Elizabeth Edwards
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. – Elizabeth Edwards
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. – Elizabeth Edwards
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. – Elizabeth Edwards
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. – Elizabeth Edwards
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. – Elizabeth Edwards
I think that we’re foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can. – Elizabeth Edwards
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. – Elizabeth Edwards
What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn’t value a white man because he’s a white man, but also doesn’t value a woman because she’s a woman, or a black because he’s a black. – Elizabeth Edwards
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. – Elizabeth Edwards
If people think that you’re throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I’m not for that. – Elizabeth Edwards
My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them. – Elizabeth Edwards
