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.
MICHELLE OBAMATrump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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When they go low, we go high.
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It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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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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One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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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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a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.
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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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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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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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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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