The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
MICHELLE OBAMATrump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first.
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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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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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The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.
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a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.
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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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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.
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When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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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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I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
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