Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
MICHELLE OBAMAOne 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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I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
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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’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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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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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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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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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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Hearing them, I realized that they weren’t at all smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different.
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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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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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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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