"Women make both the manners and the morals of a people. Neither rises higher than the gauge which women set in a community...Where a woman has bad manners, it always has in it an element of vulgarity which is more painful than it could be in a man. The result will be a society hopelessly vulgarized...with no end but to sink in an ever deeper abyss of vulgarity." -- Thomas Nelson Page, 1911
"Some call it her “bluntness”; whether Elizabeth Edwards is making jokes about her husband’s youthful good looks or presenting policy positions, she doesn’t mince her words. She regards herself as a full partner both in her marriage and in the campaign.
Elizabeth had always used Anania as her last name, but in 1996 she took the name Edwards, not for political reasons but to honor the memory of their son. “I took my son’s name,” she said briskly. “I didn’t take my husband’s name."