When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.

In fact, in the last job I had before coming to the White House - I remember this clearly - I was on maternity leave with Sasha, still trying to figure out what to do with my life, and I got a call for an interview for this position, a senior position at the hospitals. And I thought, okay, here we go. So I had to scramble to look for babysitting, and couldn't find one.

Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish.

That's where you just have to get creative. There are all these trampoline parks and there's bowling and there's roller skating.

We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we've cleared the way.

Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics.

Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don't matter, or like you don't have a place in our American story - because you do.