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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.

Michelle Obama

There’s a power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s a grace in being willing to know and hear others.
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Power Story Voice Willing Yourself
Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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Friendship Kindness Woman
No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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Effort Inspirational Myself
Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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Children Feeling Investment Worth
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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Act Explanation Inspirational
The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Education Student
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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Care Fundamental Problem Thinking Time
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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Change Life Myself Patience Teaching
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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Determination Myself Need People True Understand Voice
In my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I’d missed the signs and taken the wrong road.
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Myself Need Perfection Road Wrong
Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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Inspirational Shallow Success
When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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Limitation Yourself
At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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Hope Improvement Mindset Myself
I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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Hard Learning Myself
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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Beginning Beyond Hope Myself Place Thinking Understand Yourself
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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Attachment Experience Ocean Place Yourself

It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.

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