Look how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?
MICHELLE OBAMALook how I’m managing, I wanted to say in those moments, to my audience of no one. Does everyone see that I’m pulling this off?
MICHELLE OBAMAAt fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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.
MICHELLE OBAMAIn my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I’d missed the signs and taken the wrong road.
MICHELLE OBAMAYou find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
MICHELLE OBAMAWhen you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
MICHELLE OBAMAKids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
MICHELLE OBAMAThe more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
MICHELLE OBAMAAmerica, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
MICHELLE OBAMAAnd there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
MICHELLE OBAMAI have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
MICHELLE OBAMABut 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.
MICHELLE OBAMAInspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
MICHELLE OBAMAI like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
MICHELLE OBAMAFailure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
MICHELLE OBAMAMarriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
MICHELLE OBAMA