The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
MICHELLE OBAMAWe 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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When they go low, we go high.
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Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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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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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
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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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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
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The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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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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