My most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
MICHELLE OBAMAAnd 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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But 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.
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child – What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.
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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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The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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there’s no straight line between effort and reward.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an angry black woman. I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most—is it angry or black or woman ?
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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?
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Am I good enough? Yes, I am.
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