1. “Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.”
2. “You can’t make decisions based on fear and possibility of what might happen.”
3. “Most people were good people if you just treated them well.”
4. “Inspiration on it way was shallow; you had to back it up.”
5. “Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.”
6. “Optics would always rule our lives.”
7. “If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll quickly and inaccurately defined by others.”
8. “We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.”
9. “The lesson being that in life you control what you can.”
10. “Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.”
11. “When they go low, we go high.”
12. “Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.”
13. “The more popular you became the more haters you acquired.”
14. “Choose people who lift you up.”
15. “Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.”
16. “Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.”
17. “It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.”
18. “You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.”
19. “The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.”
20. “Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.”
21. “Elections aren’t just about who votes but who doesn’t vote.”
22. “People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.”
23. “Grief and resilience live together.”
24. “Find people who will make you better.”
25. “Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.”
26. “Through my education, I didn’t jut develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.”
27. “People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.”
28. “The only way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.”
29. “There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.”
30. “We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.”
