Elizabeth Edwards Biography

Occup.	Lawyer
From	USA
Born	July 3, 1949
Died	December 7, 2010
Aged	61 years

Elizabeth Anania Edwards was born on July 3, 1949, in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. She was an American lawyer, author, as well as a widely appreciated as well as prominent number in American politics. As the spouse of previous U.S. legislator and 2004 Democratic vice-presidential nominee John Edwards, she played an active duty in his political profession, functioning as both a campaign consultant and speaker.

Elizabeth Anania Edwards had a varied as well as established upbringing. She was the daughter of Vincent Anania, a United States Navy pilot, and also Mary Elizabeth Thweatt Anania, a homemaker. Due to her daddy's marine career, Elizabeth spent her childhood years in numerous nations, consisting of Japan, where she participated in senior high school. This exposure to different cultures and also experiences helped shape her worldview and ideas.

Edwards went to Mary Washington College prior to moving to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), where she gained her Bachelor's level in English in 1971. After functioning quickly as a clerk with the U.S. District Court, she returned to UNC to study legislation, making her Juris Doctor in 1977. At UNC regulation institution, she satisfied her future husband, John Edwards. The pair wed in 1977 as well as had 4 children: Wade, Cate, Emma Claire, as well as Jack.

While stabilizing her family life, Elizabeth Edwards practiced regulation as a jr affiliate and later as a companion at the law firm Merriman, Nicholls, and Crampton in Raleigh, North Carolina. She concentrated largely on insolvency legislation and also represented both specific borrowers and businesses.

Misfortune struck the Edwards family in 1996 when their eldest kid, Wade, died in a cars and truck mishap at the age of 16. Devastated by the loss, Elizabeth pulled back from her legal career and also later on turned to philanthropy, co-founding the Wade Edwards Foundation with her spouse. The structure, based in Raleigh, given sources and also support for youngsters and young people, including a discovering center as well as scholarships.

In 2004, she was identified with breast cancer cells, and Elizabeth Edwards soon started supporting for health care reform, coming to be a noticeable voice in the political landscape. In her 2006 memoir, "Saving Graces: Finding Solace as well as Strength from Friends as well as Strangers," Elizabeth shared her experiences with sorrow, love, as well as national politics. The book was commonly applauded for its candid and authentic representation of her battles as well as accomplishments.

Nonetheless, Elizabeth's personal life was marred by her spouse's very publicized cheating scandal, which emerged during the 2008 governmental project. Though at first waiting her spouse, the couple divided in 2010 after 33 years of marital relationship.

On December 7, 2010, Elizabeth Edwards died at her Chapel Hill house at the age of 61, surrounded by her family members after a lengthy and take on battle with metastatic bust cancer cells. Her legacy as a loving mommy, an intense advocate, and also an established warrior versus cancer cells lives on in the many lives she touched with her campaigning for and her works.

Our collection contains 12 quotes who is written / told by Elizabeth, under the main topic Family.

Related authors: John Edwards (Politician), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

12 Famous quotes by Elizabeth Edwards

"You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces - my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope. These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined"

"It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home"

"But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful"

"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"

"You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life"

"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"

"I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves"

"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"

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

"If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that"

"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"

"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"