a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.
MICHELLE OBAMAMy most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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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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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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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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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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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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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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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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
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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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When they go low, we go high.
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