just do what works for you, because there will always be someone who think diffenrently... - Michelle Obama

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”?

People who work the day shift, kiss their kids goodnight, and head out for the night shift — without disappointment, without regret — that goodnight kiss a reminder of everything they're working for.

a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately — even alone.