Michelle Obama's Career Timeout: Washington Post
Friday, May 11, 2007 at 8:53PM
CHICAGO -- For the first time in her adult life, Michelle Obama is about to be unemployed.
She never aspired to be a stay-at-home wife or mother. For years she wrestled with the issues that many professional women with families face, chiefly whether to quit her job. Now, that is what Obama, 43, has decided to do. And though she will hardly be homebound, she admits to being conflicted.
"It is very odd," she said of the prospect of interrupting her career, during one of her first one-on-one interviews since her husband, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), announced he is running for president. more

























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