Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
MICHELLE OBAMAThe easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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Everything was not lost. This was the message we needed to carry forward. It’s what I truly believed. It wasn’t ideal, but it was our reality—the world as it is. We needed now to be resolute, to keep our feet pointed in the direction of progress.
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We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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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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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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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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[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
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Focus on what you can control. Be a good person every day. Vote. Read. Treat one another kindly. Follow the law. Don’t tweet nasty stuff.
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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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Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.
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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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