If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
MICHELLE OBAMAFriendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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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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The choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. What’s better for us? Barack called to the people gathered in the room. Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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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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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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I’ve smiled for photos with people who call my husband horrible names on national television, but still want a framed keepsake for their mantel.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
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And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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