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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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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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.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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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.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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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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Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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