Quotes by Elizabeth Edwards

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

"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."

"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."

"I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us."

"In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you."

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

"I want to reclaim who I am."

"I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being."

"Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them."

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

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

"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."

"I don't expect to get yesterday's medicine. If I can help it, I'd like to get tomorrow's medicine."

"You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one."

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

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

"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."

"I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry."

"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."