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One day I was teaching my class and then I had to go to the White House right after, so literally, I took my dress to school. After my classes I went into the ladies room, changed into my outfit, got into the car, went to the White House. So there are real, you know, Superman moments!

Jill Biden

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Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

Education Us Teaches

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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.

Power Who Using

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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.

Women Men Change

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

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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.

Family Would Wit

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

Education Unlock UN

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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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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.

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Education is possibility set in motion.

Education T Set

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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.

Life Yourself Yours

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

Education Art Whole

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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.

Women Respect Men

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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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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.

Teacher Men Art

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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.

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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.

Women Politics Men

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May God bless our troops.

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

Teacher Teach Tea

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

Medical Very Us

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

Well, when Joe Biden is president you will no longer see this separation of families along the border. We welcome these families to enter into the United States.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

There was a little nook on Air Force Two that contained the vice presidential seal, and I would sort of wedge myself in there and grade papers on the floor.

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.

We need good reading programs, and we need equity in schools.

I buy my own clothes. I have a teacher's salary.

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

When students come to the community college, they're focused. They know what they want to do, and they have a certain amount of time to do it.

On the campaign trail, I have the opportunity to meet people from all walks of life - from residents at a battered women's shelter to mentally handicap children to retirees - and learn about their lives and struggles.

Most people probably don't know that Joe has a romantic side to him.

The role I have always felt most at home in is being 'Dr. B.'

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.

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.

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 think exercise is really important, not just for your physical self, for your body, but for your head.

People have not really noticed community colleges, but they are where students really become successful.

One day I was teaching my class and then I had to go to the White House right after, so literally, I took my dress to school. After my classes I went into the ladies room, changed into my outfit, got into the car, went to the White House. So there are real, you know, Superman moments!

It was important to me that Beau and Hunter felt our family was whole, and that meant we got to define our relationship, not anyone else.

I think I am a tough grader, because I feel like it's my job to teach them to write well. I hope my students say I'm a fair teacher.

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.

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

What's on my iPod? Well, certainly Bruce Springsteen.

I'm a gardener, and I love to plant.