The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.
MICHELLE OBAMAThe easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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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My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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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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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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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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There’s a power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s a grace in being willing to know and hear others.
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Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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I 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?
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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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He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.
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