Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
MICHELLE OBAMAMy daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an angry black woman. I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most—is it angry or black or woman ?
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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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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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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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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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It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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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 like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
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There’s a power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s a grace in being willing to know and hear others.
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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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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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For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
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