Quottern

“Not waiting for the sounds of someone was a release. And a strength.” Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“When they go low, we go high.” Michelle Obama

“When they go low, we go high.” Michelle Obama

“Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“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

“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

“Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Everyone on Earth, they'd tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Everyone on Earth, they'd tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“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

“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

“Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Happy seemed like a starting place for everything.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Happy seemed like a starting place for everything.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“There are truths we face and truths we ignore.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“There are truths we face and truths we ignore.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“To me, there was magic in the learning.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“To me, there was magic in the learning.” Michelle Obama, Becoming

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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