Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
MICHELLE OBAMAI look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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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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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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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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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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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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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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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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Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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The choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. What’s better for us? Barack called to the people gathered in the room. Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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