Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obamais an American lawyer, writer, and First Lady of the United States. She is married to the 44th and current President of the United States, Barack Obama, and is the first African-American First Lady. Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, Obama is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and spent her early legal career working at the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met her husband. She subsequently worked as the Associate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth17 January 1964
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Wounded Warriors tell me they're not just going to walk again, they're going to run, and they're going to run marathons!
It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their own hand at gardening and enjoy all the gifts of health, discovery, and connection a garden can bring.
Every day, through engagement in the arts, our children learn to open their imagination, to dream just a little bigger and to strive every day to reach those dreams.
Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish.
There is nothing more important to this nation's future than investing in our young people.
Walk away from 'friendships' that make you feel small and insecure, and seek out people who inspire you and support you
Find people who will make you better.
I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.
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?
Believe it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage.
I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.
How hard you work matters more than how much you make.
Choose people who lift you up.
The benefits of studying abroad are almost endless.