Jill Biden Quotes

Hopefully, even if I am judged or there's confusion, anger, about how I identify, I hope that people can understand that family is fluid.

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.

Family comes first. You're the only thing they have.

I have always felt like a loved, valued and equal member of my family.

That's what a family is: a whole bunch of people coming together.

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.

This is my life. I don't need a piece of paper to make it a family unit.

True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.

Not having a great relationship with my brother Aaron, or what people think that relationship should be, didn't define me.

Even when people don't stay married, they can still be a family together. That's been something that's been really good for developing me as a person. It's been a very positive learning experience.

I never wanted my kids to feel about me the way I felt about him.

We all contribute to The National, and it's like a familiar family. Matt is dad, Brian's like the dark horse uncle, Scott's the long-suffering mum, and Aaron and I are the bratty twins.

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

I have to concentrate on my son. That's why I have lovers right now and not a boyfriend. I don't want my son to start calling somebody Daddy unless that person's gonna stay.

My mom has said she wished I were gay... I don't think she likes my taste in men.

In the nurturing family...parents see themselves as empowering leaders not as authoritative bosses. They see their job primarily as one of teaching their children how to be truly human in all situations. They readily acknowledge to the child their poor judgment as well as their good judgment; their hurt, anger, or disappointment as well as their joy. The behavior of these parents matches what they say.

Love each other. Regard each other as members of one family.

I get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents did to you? The best thing they could do. The best thing they knew how, the only thing in many cases that they knew how. Nobody has set out maliciously to hurt their child, unless they were psychotic.

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the parents are stronger than children.

I think the idea of family and protecting the family is something that ties a lot of these women together.

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

Even a family needs to work as a team.