Quotes by 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."

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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."

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

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"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."

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"I'm an English teacher, so I'm used to reading and I'm used to reading out loud."

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

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

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"Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others."

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