Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
MICHELLE OBAMAFailure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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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 easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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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 stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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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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I grew up with a disabled dad in a too-small house with not much money in a starting-to-fail neighborhood, and I also grew up surrounded by love and music in a diverse city in a country where an education can take you far. I had nothing or I had everything. It depends on which way you want to tell it.
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I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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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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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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