a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.
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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Now 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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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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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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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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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?
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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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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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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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