failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
MICHELLE OBAMAIn my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I’d missed the signs and taken the wrong road.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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It felt perverse, how the world just carried on. How everyone was still here, except for my Suzanne.
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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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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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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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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.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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In my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I’d missed the signs and taken the wrong road.
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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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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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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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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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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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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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