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" This healthy eating stuff, it's here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve. "

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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

Women

Opportunity

Creating

" Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls. "

" You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country. "

" My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. "

Michelle Obama

Sometimes

White

" People want to feel hopeful. "

" Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius. "

" My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn't sustain us. "

" Oh, I can't play soccer, and I'm not a great swimmer. I won't drown, but you won't see me doing laps in a pool. "

" I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president. "

" Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn't imagine how a baby would fit into all of that. "

" People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another. "

" 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. "

" That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for my education. "

" I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love. "

" 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. "

" Right now, when we're hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been - and will always be - our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States. "

" I want kids to know: Don't wait for somebody to come along and tell you you're special. Because that may never happen. "

" We need a president who will choose to do what's best for the country, even when it doesn't personally benefit them. "

" Hillary doesn't play. She has more experience and exposure to the presidency than any candidate in our lifetime - yes, more than Barack, more than Bill. So she is absolutely ready to be Commander-in-Chief on day one. And, yes, she happens to be a woman. "

" When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you've got to set those phones down. "

" The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know. "

" I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education. "

" And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me. "

" When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously. "

" The issues that cross a president's desk are never easy. The easy questions don't even get to the president. "

" I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That's what I always try to do. "

" Meryl Streep is exactly as awesome as you would imagine Meryl Streep to be. "

" It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world. "

Michelle Obama

Class

Top

" Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate - there is no such thing. Presidents are human. "

" Whether we're Democrats, Republicans, or independents - it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us. "