The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
MICHELLE OBAMAFulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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In my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I’d missed the signs and taken the wrong road.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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Hearing them, I realized that they weren’t at all smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different.
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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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Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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My most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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When they go low, we go high.
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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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Focus on what you can control. Be a good person every day. Vote. Read. Treat one another kindly. Follow the law. Don’t tweet nasty stuff.
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