Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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I was determined to be someone who told the truth, using my voice to lift up the voiceless when I could, and to not disappear on people in need. I understood that when I showed up somewhere,
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Even white people were recognizing him now.
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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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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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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.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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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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Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path—the my-isn’t-that-impressive path—and keep you there for a long time.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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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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