You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
MICHELLE OBAMAFriendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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You don’t really know how attached you are until you move away, until you’ve experienced what it means to be dislodged, a cork floating on the ocean of another place.
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child – What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
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We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.
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The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
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Everything was not lost. This was the message we needed to carry forward. It’s what I truly believed. It wasn’t ideal, but it was our reality—the world as it is. We needed now to be resolute, to keep our feet pointed in the direction of progress.
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This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path–the my-isn’t-that-impressive- path– and keep you there for a long time.
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I look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go.
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The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.
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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.
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We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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