We live by the paradigms we know.
MICHELLE OBAMAEveryone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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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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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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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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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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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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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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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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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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[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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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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