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.
MICHELLE OBAMALife 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stick place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
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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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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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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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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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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 lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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They didn’t own a house. We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us.
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We live by the paradigms we know.
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At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts, good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.
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