Jill Biden Quotes

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Jill Biden

Profession : Educator

Birth : June 3, 1951

I've always believed you've got to steal the joyful moments when you can.

Jill Biden

As a political spouse, I've found that my stoicism often serves me well.

Jill Biden

Teaching is not a job. It's a lifestyle. It permeates your whole life.

Jill Biden

Education doesn't just make us smarter. It makes us whole.

Jill Biden

Marrying Joe wasn't just about him. It was about Hunter and Beau as well. They had endured the loss of one mother already, and I couldn't risk having them lose another.

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Every day, women and girls are finding incredible confidence and taking risks. When they change one mind, pretty soon, they have changed one tradition. That changed tradition has changed a village. That one village has changed a country. That new reality means new opportunities for themselves and their daughters.

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We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.

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I'm not a lady who lunches.

Jill Biden

I don't think any mother who has lost a child is ever the same.

Jill Biden

There were times when I actually prayed not to get married.

Jill Biden

Life is difficult, and if you sit around waiting for fun to show up, you'll find yourself going without it more often than not.

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Back in 2008, after we'd won the election, no one really expected me to keep teaching. But I couldn't just walk away... So I did both. For eight years, that was my life's dichotomy. State receptions - and midterms. Dinner with the most powerful man on earth - and study sessions with single moms.

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I'm not a politician. I am an English teacher.

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We can end cancer as we know it.

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What I said was that Joe's family was different than my family, that he came from a very affectionate family. My family was very loving, but we didn't show that kind of affection. So for me, that took me a little while to get used to that.

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Cancer has been a dark thread that has run throughout my life. It's taken my friends, my parents. My beautiful son.

Jill Biden

My students have shown me so many times that it's not always about being the perfect person in the perfect position - it's about showing up when you're needed.

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I grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, with my parents and sisters, but my family would drive every weekend to Hammonton, where both my grandparents lived and where my parents were raised.

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Since Beau's death, I'm definitely shattered. I feel like a piece of china that's been glued back together again. The cracks may be imperceptible-but they're there. Look closely, and you can see the glue holding me together, the precarious edges that vein through my heart. I am not the same. I feel it every day.

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It sounds so trite to say I make a difference, but I really feel, especially in a community college, I can make a difference.

Jill Biden