Elizabeth Edwards
Elizabeth Edwards was an American attorney, writer, and teacher born on July 3, 1949, in Jacksonville.
She attended the University of Mary Washington before continuing her education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she completed her studies. Her time at those institutions shaped the professional path she would follow across several fields, including law, writing, and teaching.
As an attorney and jurist, Edwards built a career grounded in legal practice in the United States. Alongside her legal work, she also took on roles as a teacher and a writer, making her professional life one that moved across more than one discipline. Her work as a writer gave her a public platform beyond the courtroom or the classroom, and her output in that area drew considerable attention during her lifetime.
Edwards died on December 7, 2010, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina — the same city where she had studied years earlier. Her career as a lawyer and her work as a writer remained the two most prominent threads running through her public life.
Quotes by Elizabeth Edwards
Elizabeth Edwards's insights on:
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
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.
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.