When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
MICHELLE OBAMAGood relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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.
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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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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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For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
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The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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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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Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child – What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.
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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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Focus on what you can control. Be a good person every day. Vote. Read. Treat one another kindly. Follow the law. Don’t tweet nasty stuff.
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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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