Top 100 Elizabeth Edwards Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

53. “In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

54. “I think being an effective First Lady is first of all being the partner that your husband needs.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

55. “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.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

56. “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.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

57. “I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

58. “I grew up in a Navy family.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

59. “I’m actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

60. “Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

61. “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

62. “I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn’t we go around fixing them?”

— Elizabeth Edwards

63. “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.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

64. “People find it a great blessing if their child left behind a child.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

65. “Almost everybody embraces life.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

67. “I’m not worried about me or what’s going to happen to me.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

68. “I’m completely comfortable with gay marriage.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

71. “I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don’t know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

72. “I’m part of a community that holds each other up, and it’s been great to be held up too.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

73. “I’ve spent a lot of words on my own mortality.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

74. “I come out of real life.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

75. “It’s just a part of our nature to hope.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

76. “My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

77. “I want to reclaim who I am.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

78. “You know, there are no guarantees on prognosis.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

79. “I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

80. “Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn’t so happy with them.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

82. “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.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

83. “My father had gone to Vietnam.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

84. “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.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

85. “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.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

86. “Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren’t willing to listen to another voice.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

87. “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

88. “I don’t know why someone else’s marriage has anything to do with me.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

89. “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.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

90. “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.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

92. “Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they’ve just been trounced in the days before, there’s also – always a lot of questions about why that happened.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

93. “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

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

95. “If I say something that ends up on the front page of Drudge, I haven’t done it right.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

96. “I’ve had experiences that, you know, really couldn’t be replaced.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

97. “In the end, there is peace. If we are strong, if we are resilient, if we are stubborn and filled with hope, if we know how to love, there is peace before that, too. And, honestly, that is enough.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

98. “But we cannot, they cannot turn back. This is the life we have now, and the only way to find peace, the only way to be resilient when these landmines explode beneath your foundation, is first to accept that there is a new reality.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

99. “And although we can escape something’s presence, there is no way to escape its absence.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

100. “I was dying and he had chosen to spend time with someone so completely unlike me. I saw my death not simply as a transition for my family but as my complete erasure from my family’s life.”

— Elizabeth Edwards