Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
MICHELLE OBAMANow I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child – 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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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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When they go low, we go high.
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Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.
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I was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need. I understood that when I showed up somewhere,
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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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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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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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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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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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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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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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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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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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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