My most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
MICHELLE OBAMAWhat 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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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 find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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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 just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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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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We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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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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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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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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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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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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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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