I was a Senate spouse for many, many years. I kept my own career. I was teaching and Joe was doing politics. I realized when we were elected vice president that I had a platform and I knew I was not going to waste my platform. It was going to focus women and girls' education.

Jill Biden

Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

Jill Biden

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.

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.

Jill Biden

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

Jill Biden

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.

Jill Biden

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

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.

Jill Biden

We can be proud of a president that brings families together instead of tearing them apart. A president who believes our best days are ahead of us. That's Joe Biden.

Jill Biden

Education is possibility set in motion.

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.

Jill Biden

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

Jill Biden

I have always had a great deal of respect and admiration for Eleanor Roosevelt. She was a true humanitarian and champion of Women's Rights and Civil Rights.

Jill Biden

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.

Jill Biden

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.

Jill Biden

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.

Jill Biden

I was a Senate spouse for many, many years. I kept my own career. I was teaching and Joe was doing politics. I realized when we were elected vice president that I had a platform and I knew I was not going to waste my platform. It was going to focus women and girls' education.

Jill Biden

May God bless our troops.

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.

Jill Biden

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

Jill Biden

We can learn something from every single medical interaction. Every case, every patient has a lesson to teach us.

Jill Biden