Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
MICHELLE OBAMAWe were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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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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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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It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an angry black woman. I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most—is it angry or black or woman ?
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[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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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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But as I’ve said, failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. And for me, it felt like that’s exactly what she was planting—a suggestion of failure long before I’d even tried to succeed.
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The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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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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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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It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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