Jill Biden
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.Collection: Women
Education doesn't just make us smarter. It makes us whole.Collection: Education
Most women I know have been harassed in some way. And you never wanted to report it, because you were afraid of losing your job or you felt like, hey, did that just happen? I think it's good that women now... have the courage! Because it's not easy.Collection: Courage
We can learn something from every single medical interaction. Every case, every patient has a lesson to teach us.Collection: Medical
I remember my grandmother taking me and my sisters to the Steel Pier in Atlantic City. We would watch the diving bell and see the diving horse jump into the pool. We would take the bus there, and I just smile thinking about all of us running around the pier on those days.Collection: Smile
Education is possibility set in motion.Collection: Education
Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.Collection: Education
I've always believed you've got to steal the joyful moments when you can.
It sounds so trite to say I make a difference, but I really feel, especially in a community college, I can make a difference.
Teaching is not a job. It's a lifestyle. It permeates your whole life.
I'm not a lady who lunches.
What's on my iPod? Well, certainly Bruce Springsteen.
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.
I never took a political science course.
There's nothing that's more unfair or unjust than people using their power to try to make other people feel small, to tell them who they are or what they are capable of, to say their identity doesn't belong.
I'm good at separating things. When I'm in my classroom, I'm totally there. When I'm at an event, I'm totally there. And when I'm with my grandkids, my total attention is on them.
The White House is a serious place, with serious people, doing serious work. If you're not careful, it can grind you down.
I had grown up with four sisters.
I think it's important for every woman to have her own money and be independent.
People know Joe Biden. They've seen the strong parts of his character and how resilient he is.
Every day, I see my students work hard to overcome obstacles just to be in the classroom.
For laid-off workers, community colleges offer job-certification programs that teach new skills and professions.
We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.
The passage of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 was a substantial victory for community colleges.
Life is change.
There were times when I actually prayed not to get married.
I knew that it was harder to unite two lives than I had imagined growing up. I knew that relationships could be fragile.
As a political spouse, I've found that my stoicism often serves me well.
I had a number of part-time jobs after school in Willow Grove, but I did work for two summers in Ocean City as a waitress at Chris' Seafood Restaurant. I loved it.
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.
As a lifelong educator and as part of a military family, the way we reach out to military children in our classrooms has been especially close to my heart.
Many Americans don't know anyone in the military, so they aren't aware that, on average, a military child attends six to nine schools by the time he or she graduates from high school. Through each transition, the children have to leave their friends, try out for new sports teams and adjust to a new school community.
I have visited classrooms near military bases to learn more about what schools were doing to support their military kids. I met with teachers overseas to learn about the particular needs they face thousands of miles from America. And I listened to my own granddaughter, who dealt with her father's yearlong deployment to Iraq.
May God bless our troops.
Cancer has been a dark thread that has run throughout my life. It's taken my friends, my parents. My beautiful son.
We can end cancer as we know it.
We have asked a lot of our military families and I believe they deserve the very best efforts of each of us to show them how much we appreciate their service to our country.
Community colleges are the way of the future.
The American people know Joe Biden. They know his values. They know what he stands for.
We've seen the struggle, and we know that most American families are dealing with some sort of struggle like we are. And I think they can relate to us, you know, as parents who are hopeful and are supportive of our son, and we will continue to be supportive. And I think that makes us more empathetic about helping other Americans.
Not only had I not expected a random call from Joe Biden, but I could never have imagined he would make that call to ask me out. I've been asked if I was starstruck by the fact that a U.S. senator thought I was worth a call, but I honestly wasn't. I was flattered that someone I'd heard of was interested.
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.
I don't think any mother who has lost a child is ever the same.
So many people in my life need prayers, and I feel like I owe that to them. After all, in heaven, we feed each other.
Well, when I'm out running, people don't recognize me, which is great. I don't feel pressure; I'm not out to beat anybody or hit a certain time. I just do it for the enjoyment of it. I'm doing it for myself.
Let's face it, we really did need something like this in this country to fight childhood obesity.
I think that running creates a sense of balance in my life. And it really calms me down.
We need good reading programs, and we need equity in schools.
When I go to the supermarket, I can see people looking in my cart. So I have to be careful what I buy and when. I send my sister to Costco to pick up the personal items.
Well, I'm a runner, and I have to run with Secret Service - even though they can run twice as fast. It took me a while to get used to running with them, because I love the solitary aspect of it. So I have two rules. First, I can't hear their feet. And second, I can't see their shadows.