“Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.”
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Famous Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
“By what you do, you teach your children how to respond to difficult information.”
“Honestly, I get energized by the crowds. They feed me emotionally.”
“I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.”
“I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.”
“I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.”
“I'm actually one of those people who get up energetic in the morning.”
“I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced.”
“The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.”
“You never know when something's going to hit you in a particular way and just knock you loose.”
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“If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.”
“Every parent has gone through a period when their child wasn't so happy with them.”
“I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.”
“I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.”
“I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.”
“In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.”