Karen White

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

My grandma is probably the only person on this planet that I still remember their home number by heart

My #1 priority is being a mother as well and I can work too, so can you!

The times when Barack and I are at our most relaxed are when we invite some friends over who we have known forever. And you put a little music on top of that? Some good food? It renews your spirit to get back in the game.

Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring, quite often the hard way.

I was bribing North to wear her butter 350’s by saying they glow in the dark. However, she made me turn off the lights to test it. She caught me lying but Kanye was on speaker phone and said don’t worry I will make them.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them.

My father died in 1960. He was an intellectual. . . . She made the money and he read a lot. He wasn’t successful or ambitious. He spoke lots of languages. There were times that kids said to me, ‘What does your father do?’ and I had to make something up because I actually didn’t know what he did.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

I know what it’s like to be married and to live in a house with a garden, but it’s not something I’m striving for at the moment.

No person in their right mind would want to put their family through what I’ve had to put my family through.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

My father was a perfectionist. We had to hop to everything and have marvelous table manners. I could only wear navy blue and gray and white. He wanted me to be interested in tennis and horses just like a little princess, but I couldn’t stand such things.