Michelle Obama Michelle Obama Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American lawyer, university administrator, and writer who served as the First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She is married to the 44th U.S. President, Barack Obama, and was the first African-American First Lady. Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, Obama is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. In her early legal career, she worked at the law firm Sidley Austin, where she met Barack Obama. She subsequently worked in non-profits and as the Associate Dean of Student Services at
Maiden Bright-eye Maiden Bright-eye Maiden Bright-eye is a Danish fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it in "The Pink Fairy Book". It is Aarne-Thompson type 480: the kind and the unkind girls. A man has a son and a daughter, that latter of whom is known as Maiden Bright-eye. His wife dies and he marries another woman, who has a daughter of her own. The stepmother is cruel to her Bright-eye. One day, the stepmother sends her to watch the sheep and pull heather. For dinner, the stepmother packs Maiden Bright-eye pancakes with flour that has been mixed with ashes. Maiden Bright-eye pulls