And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
MICHELLE OBAMAMarriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who thinks differently.
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I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
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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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Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly. Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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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 easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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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 began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stick place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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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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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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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
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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 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.
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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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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
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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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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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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 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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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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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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