I didn’t want them ever to believe that life began when the man of the house arrived home. We didn’t wait for Dad. It was his job now to catch up with us.
MICHELLE OBAMADon’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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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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We live by the paradigms we know.
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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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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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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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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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Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we’re doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change
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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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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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