后来,我遇到一位女性,她被派来担任我在一家律师事务所从事的第一份暑期工作的指导。她对我的指导如此之好,以致于我娶了她。(笑声)米歇尔和我竭尽全力在发展事业与照顾幼小的孩子之间找到平衡。但是说实话,不管我当时可能认为自己是多么开通,在我外出旅行时,在我不在家时,家事往往更多地落在她的肩上。我知道,在照顾我们的两个女儿时,她为没有在工作上付出足够时间感到内疚;而当她上班时,又为没有给孩子足够的时间感到内疚。我们俩都唯愿我们有某种超人的能力,使我们能够两者兼顾。但我们坚持住了,我们的努力保证了婚姻的成功。
And the reason Michelle had the strength to juggle everything, and put up with me and eventually the public spotlight, was because she, too, came from a family of folks who didn’t quit -- because she saw her dad get up and go to work every day even though he never finished college, even though he had crippling MS. She saw her mother, even though she never finished college, in that school, that urban school, every day making sure Michelle and her brother were getting the education they deserved. Michelle saw how her parents never quit. They never indulged in self-pity, no matter how stacked the odds were against them. They didn't quit.
米歇尔之所以能够坚强地招架一切并忍受我,而且最终忍受公众聚光,是因为她同样来自一个不轻易退却的家庭——因为她看到她的父亲每天一大早起来去上班,尽管他从未念完大学,尽管他患有影响行动的多发性硬化症。她看到,尽管她的母亲从未念完大学,但在那个学校,那个贫民区的学校,她每天都确保米歇尔和她的哥哥受到他们应该得到的教育。米歇尔看到她的父母从不放弃。他们从不沉溺于自怜,不管他们面临多么不利的境况。他们从不放弃。
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