Word: spaces
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...things that I'd like to do? And you always get that question, or I got that question a lot over the course of the campaign. But one of the things that I thought was, Well, how powerful would it be for young girls to come into this space and hear from other really powerful, impressive, dynamic women and to have that conversation go on here in the White House...
...sort of started thinking through the event and thinking about how I wanted to relate to the D.C. community as well, I always thought whenever we invited somebody in, I wanted to go out to their space too. I wanted that to be a mutual exchange, that it's not just people coming here where I live but it's me going out to where they live...
...opinions over the course of the conversation. But I don't want to have a say. Really, there are a lot of times when I'm like, Don't tell me what happened today at work. I just don't want to hear it, because I want the home space to really be free of that...
...might as well start with what you like and what you care about, what your passions are, what makes sense. That's my message to women, if anything, over the course of this, is, find your space. Find your spot. Wear what you love. Choose the careers that may have meaning to you, because there's always somebody who will say, "I wouldn't have worn that color, or why didn't you work at that...
...into the community too. So on a cool day in March, she dispatched a regiment of role models to schools across Washington, including singers Alicia Keys and Sheryl Crow, Ann Dunwoody, the first female four-star general, and Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to travel into space. Michelle visited Anacostia High School, where violence is common and signs on the walls tell students which baby supplies will be available through the Baby Bonus Bucks Redemption Program. She sat with a group of 10 girls and three boys, who had been chosen, she told them, because "somebody in your...