Michelle Obama

I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it.

Michelle Obama

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?

Michelle Obama

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

Michelle Obama

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

Michelle Obama

I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.

Michelle Obama

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

Michelle Obama

I joke that I stick with the job because it covers my insurance, but the reality is that my career has always been very important to me.

Michelle Obama

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Michelle Obama

I know what makes me happy. I pick the clothes that make me happy – sometimes people like them, sometimes they don’t. I try to listen to my own internal guide.

Michelle Obama

I look at how my kids view exercise. They have a complete understanding that nutrition and exercise go hand in hand. I didn’t think like that when I was a kid. But they have a real consciousness about it that I’d like to think comes from the years of attention we’ve put into this.

Michelle Obama