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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.”
Michelle Obama, Becoming
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“Everyone on Earth, they'd tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”
Michelle Obama, Becoming
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“It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.”
Michelle Obama, Becoming
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“This is what a control freak learned inside the compressed world of college, maybe above all else: There are simply other ways of being.”
Michelle Obama, Becoming
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“Most of us lived in a state of constant calibration, tweaking one area of life in hopes of bringing more steadiness to another.”
Michelle Obama, Becoming
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“Like a lot of girls, I became aware of the liabilities of my body early, long before I began to even look like a woman.”
Michelle Obama, Becoming
