It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
MICHELLE OBAMAIt was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
MICHELLE OBAMAThe easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.
MICHELLE OBAMAWe should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.
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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.
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.
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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
MICHELLE OBAMAAt fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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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.
MICHELLE OBAMAHere’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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They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
MICHELLE OBAMAThey didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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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
MICHELLE OBAMAChanging 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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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
MICHELLE OBAMAAnd there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
MICHELLE OBAMAThe truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
MICHELLE OBAMABullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
MICHELLE OBAMAPeople who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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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.
MICHELLE OBAMAa 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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For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
MICHELLE OBAMAFor me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
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