Becoming by Michelle Obama

Becoming by Michelle Obama
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Michelle Obama's Becoming did not disappoint. One of the qualities that make it a good read is the brutal honesty that is depicted by how she bares the most intimate parts of her life to the reader describing the raw emotions she experience in all this moments. Yes it's feminist but what do you expect when a woman chooses to speak honestly about life ? Some of the best quotes include:

“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”

“Women endure entire lifetimes of these indignities—in the form of catcalls, groping, assault, oppression. These things injure us. They sap our strength. Some of the cuts are so small they’re barely visible. Others are huge and gaping, leaving scars that never heal. Either way, they accumulate. We carry them everywhere, to and from school and work, at home while raising our children, at our places of worship, anytime we try to advance.”

"It went back to my wishes for them to grow up strong and centered and also unaccommodating
to any form of old-school patriarchy: I didn't want them ever to believe that life began when the man of the house arrived home."

"It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does. It can hurt to walk down a hallway or open the fridge. It hurts to put on a pair of socks, to brush your teeth. Food tastes like nothing. Colors go flat. Music hurts, and so do memories. You look at something you’d otherwise find beautiful—a purple sky at sunset or a playground full of kids—and it only somehow deepens the loss. Grief is so lonely this way."

"I tried not to feel intimidated when classroom conversation was dominated by male students, which it often was. Hearing them, I realized that they weren't at all smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different."