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When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Health
Another Day
Barack
Care
Easy
Folks
Health Reform
President
Raised
Reform
Right Thing
Health Day Care
Cared
Easy Thing
Leave
Families
Politically
Refused
The Right Thing
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What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Running
Reading
Reflection
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I can't say this enough - the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you're stronger, you think more quickly.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Sports
Energy
Enough
Fuel
Grades
Stronger
Your Body
Activities
Actually
Affect
Also
Bodies
Possible
Too
Say
Give
Help
Performance
Put
Quickly
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Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Book
Loss
Reading
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Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.
Lady Bird Johnson
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Men
Earth
Thinking
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When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don't just sit around thinking about it or talking about it - they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Loved Ones
Men And Women
Men Women Thinking
Breaks
Women Men Thinking
Orders
Uniform
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The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Knowing
People
Unhappy Person
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The arts and humanities define who we are as a people. That is their power -- to remind us of what we each have to offer, and what we all have in common. To help us understand our history and imagine our future. To give us hope in the moments of struggle and to bring us together when nothing else will.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Art
People
Struggle
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One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it, and it was in the paper. And the more I thought about it and found out about it, the more I thought it was just a terrible situation with no attention. And I've been working on it ever since.
Rosalynn Carter
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Attention
Heard
Illness
Mental Illness
One Day
Paper
Situation
Terrible
Work Day People
Since
Somebody
Mental
Press
Remark
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Fashion is not just about what we wear, but...fashion is also a business. It is an art, it's a career that involves science, engineering, accounting and so much more. People can learn about the math behind Charles James' designs, and think, 'Maybe I should pay closer attention to geometry this semester'
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Art
Fashion
Math
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Inspiring
Love
Life
Pain
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Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Happiness
Feelings
Important
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If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Greatness
Hate
Helping Others
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You look at all the sporting companies out there. I won't name names, but we know who they are. Good brands and logos and things like that, and they have to start catering to real women. Even in how their sports apparel is designed, and the commercials - you want to look at a commercial and see yourself.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Sports
Names
Real
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For me, education has never been simply a policy issue - it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Education
Opportunity
College
Financial
Financial Aid
Grew
Hard Work
Neighborhood
Plenty
Thanks
Work Hard Work Opportunity
Education Work Hard Work
Aid
Anyone
Attend
Simply
Hardly
Parents
Issue
Personal
Universities
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Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren't empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we're not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Educated
Empowering
Full Potential
Mankind
Population
Providing
Realizing
United States Of America
Life Society World
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Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts ... good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt. They're not painful. That's not just with somebody you want to marry, but it's with the friends that you choose. It's with the people you surround yourselves with.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Inspirational
Inspiring
Hurt
Strong Women
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...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Running
Greed
Long
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The National Book Festival is a great way for families and friends to share the creative works of some of America's most-loved authors, .. Readers of all ages can listen to favorite writers speaking about their books, have books autographed, meet many storybook characters and enjoy a day on the National Mall.
Laura Bush
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Former First Lady Of The United States
America
Book
Character
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Clearly this is a tough economic time, and a lot of families are hurting. So when we talk to parents, we talk about small changes for kids and things that don't cost extra money. Like adding water and eliminating sugary drinks and sodas. That's going to save money right there. Or adding a few more vegetables.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Kids
Cost
Hurt
Small Changes
Vegetables
Time Money Water
Adding
Clearly
Drinks
Extra
Hurting
Save
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Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Loyalty
Doubt
Giving
People
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As we've seen time and again, women and girls who are out there working, they are truly force multipliers, spreading opportunity through their families and communities - and not just by creating programs and nonprofit organizations, not just by hiring other women, but also by serving as role models themselves.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Hiring
Models
Role Models
Serving
Communities
Programs
Nonprofit
Spreading
Women And Girls
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We are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me - we're a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we're all created equal.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Afar
Belief
Breathe
Differences
Equal
Poor
Rebuke
Reign
Sovereign
Tired
Tyranny
Yearning
Your Tired Me
Founded
Nation
Created
Guided
Give
Hear
Revolutionaries
Masses
Refused
Says
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Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Mean
Mold
Thinking
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We are living in a time where we just don't have enough time. People are rushed. They're over worked, over scheduled. Not enough resources. ...But the thing that I want people to understand in this campaign is that families can make small manageable changes in their lives that can have pretty significant impacts.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Children
Impact
People
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Barack, like any leader, is human. And, you know, our challenges in this country isn't finding the next person who's gonna deliver us from our own evil. Because our challenges are us. The challenges that this country faces is how are we as individuals in this society gonna change? What are we gonna do differently?
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Inspirational
Leadership
Country
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I have a very eclectic iPod. So I've got my cardio people - so it's anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song 'Tightrope,' that's a good cardio song. And then I've got Sting. I've got Mary J. Blige. I've got The Beatles. I've got Michael Jackson. I try to pick the songs that I personally love.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Beyonce
Cardio
Eclectic
Ipods
Mary
People
Song
Love Good People
Blige
Michael
Ipod
Jackson
Jay-Z
Personally
Sting
Tightrope
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Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Inspirational
People
Thinking
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But, as potentially the first African American first lady, I was also the focus of another set of questions and speculations; conversations sometimes rooted in the fears and misperceptions of others. Was I too loud, or too angry, or too emasculating? Or was I too soft, too much of a mom, not enough of a career woman?
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Mom
Careers
Focus
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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
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Citizens
Groups
Hopeful
Intimidation
Demonize
Diminished
Dismiss
Entire
Leaders
Offer
Places
Potential
Rule
Stifle
Vital
Voices
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I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
Abigail Adams
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Fate
Order
Perseverance
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I was so fortunate. My parents lived lives of service. They helped other people, that was their second nature; it came to them so naturally. It wasn't forced. This is their character, and it's a big advantage I have, being raised by people like this, having a secure and stable life, and a lot of love and encouragement.
Laura Bush
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Encouragement
Character
People
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The issues facing working women and their families are closest to my heart. I decided to focus intently on the challenges military wives face because they juggle the same pressures as their nonmilitary peers, all while coping as single parents while their loved ones are overseas. I wanted to help make their voices heard.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Heart
Military
Voice
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We have to design policies that have meaningful impacts on the quality of life of women and families. And that's something that I know I can speak passionately about because whether I'm in the White House as First Lady, as long as I have kids and I'm trying to have a life, I'm gonna be trying to make this balance work...
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Kids
Impact
Meaningful
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We have had with Barack Obama some just amazing experiences traveling abroad, being able to introduce our children to the world.... I'm also humbled by the response and the receptiveness, not just here in America, but around the world. There's a part of that warmth and enthusiasm and hope that is surprising and humbling.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Children
Enthusiasm
World
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While budgets are tight right now, there are schools across the country that are showing that it doesn't take a whole lot of money or resources to give our kids the nutrition they deserve. What it does take, however, is effort. What it does take is imagination. What it does take is a commitment to our children's futures.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Children
Country
School
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My family didn't have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, 'Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?' And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Degrees
Expected
No Idea
Get Married
Graduated
Minute
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And that's my message to voters, this isn't about Barack, it's not about person on that ballot -- its about you. And for most of the people we are talking to [blacks], a Democratic ticket is the clear ticket that we should be voting on, regardless of who said what or did this -- that shouldn't even come into the equation.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
People
Talking
Voting
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Home
Progress
Rights
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I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experianence that the greater part of our happiness or misary depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.
Martha Washington
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Happiness
Cheerful
Mind
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When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Daughter
Girl
Women
Fitness
Higher
Mother
Okay
Work Out
Young Women
Work Women I Am
Dearly
Loves
Herself
Just As Much
Letting
List
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Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's lie, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you become yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Life
Children
Real
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Home-making today should have a background of scientific training because only in this way can real efficiency be achieved. The average girl wants to be able to keep her house with the least possible strain, and in order to do this she must have good training. This can best be achieved by taking a good course in home economics.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Girl
Home
Real
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Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you will meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Appreciation
Community
Wall
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Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I'm very grateful for the support and kindness that we've gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband's policies or what have you, they care about children and that's been good to see.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Kindness
Children
Grateful
Husband
Privacy
Fortunately
Gotten
Policies
Respected
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When other women have this same operation, it doesn't make any headlines. But the fact that I was the wife of the President put it in headlines and brought before the public this particular experience I was going through. It made a lot of women realize that it could happen to them. I'm sure I've saved at least one person maybe more.
Betty Ford
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Cancer
President
Wife
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I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautiful, intelligent black young women - playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.
Michelle Obama
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Clinton
Granted
Intelligent
White House
Young Women
Daughters
Dogs
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Lawn
Slaves
Sons
Take For Granted
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
Nancy Reagan
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Marriage
Getting Married
Happy Marriage
Magic
Married
Sat
Secret
Marriage Me Never
Effect
Formula
Letter
Ronnie
The Secret Of
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We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that, a Jew behaves in such a way, a Negro thinks in a different way. The lazy generalities - 'You know how women are ... Isn't that just like a man?' The world cannot be understood from a single point of view.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Men
Thinking
Views
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To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times - The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Children
Giving
People
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