Jill Biden

“I feel that exercise really balances me. Then I layer on the other obligations that I have.”

“A lot of students who are 18 or 19 go to college partly for the social aspect of it. At the community college, people's goals are a little different. Their needs are more immediate.”

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

“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.”

“I think when people hear my book on Audible, they'll hear the inflection in my voice, the tone, and understand me a little bit better and understand my family a little bit better in the ways that I tell the stories. Some are told with laughter, and some are told with sadness.”

“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.”

“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 am not a speaker. The more you do it, the easier it becomes, but I always want to be prepared, and I always practice my speeches; I never do it off the cuff.”

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

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

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

“I have great friends.”

“May God bless our troops.”

“Community colleges are the way of the future.”

“I love the women who are coming back to school and getting their degrees because they're so focused.”

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

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

“I think it's important for every woman to have her own money and be independent.”

“I am an educator.”

“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.”