by Carolyn Robertson posted in Celebrities

With her 8-year stint as the First Lady drawing to a close, Michelle Obama sat down this week for an interview with Oprah Winfrey as part of the White House summit on The United State of Women.
The conversation covered a wide range of topics, from Mrs. Obama's "swagalicious" husband ("Watching my husband walk off of Marine One and go to the Oval Office, it?s like, mmm, mmm, mmm," she admitted) to her to-do list.
While they touched on some lighthearted topics "I want to go to Target again," she said of her post-White House goals - the pair also delved into some serious and thought-provoking issues.
Issues like a woman's self-value, what we need to teach to our daughters, and all the ways in which men need to step up. Here are a few of my favorite quotes from the First Lady's 45-minute long interview:
On the importance of self-value and self-worth:
Oprah Winfrey: "The root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth. We live in a world where you are constantly being bombarded by images that encourage you to be liked, literally, and it's a lot to live up to."
Michelle Obama: "Our first job in life as women, I think, is to get to know ourselves. And I think a lot of times we don't do that. We spend our time pleasing, satisfying, looking out into the world to define who we are; listening to the messages, the...