I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
MICHELLE OBAMAI wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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I didn’t want them ever to believe that life began when the man of the house arrived home. We didn’t wait for Dad. It was his job now to catch up with us.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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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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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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I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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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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But as I’ve said, failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. And for me, it felt like that’s exactly what she was planting—a suggestion of failure long before I’d even tried to succeed.
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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