Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
MICHELLE OBAMAa happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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I was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need. I understood that when I showed up somewhere,
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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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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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
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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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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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The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.
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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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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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Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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