Just the introduction has been enough to make me fall in love with Michelle Obama all over again and make me confident enough to say that this is an inspirational look at one of the most positive role models I can imagine and a woman who constantly challenges injustice.

"Witty and sensual, indifferent to the political asperity of the times, as though he were not quite of this world." Beware anyone who is indifferent to politics in this age and happiness that is found by characters by page 28.

"Really, it wouldn't have hurt me for them to have had that. And it doesn't help me at all, now that they won't."

"That is the way a summer rain can take hold in you-- like a new heart, beating in time with another's."