I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others—because nurturing that discourse was easier, because retaining power always feels like the way forward.
Tara Westover – Educated
Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind.
Tara Westover – Educated
Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were.
Tara Westover – Educated
The most powerful determinant of who you are is inside you.
Tara Westover – Educated
We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell.
Tara Westover – Educated
It’s not about being right. It’s about being able to stand on your own two feet.
Tara Westover – Educated
You could call this self-hood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal. I call it an education.
Tara Westover – Educated
I am only a woman if woman is something one becomes, not something one is born.
Tara Westover – Educated
The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.
Tara Westover – Educated
A person’s life is not a narrative. It’s a collage.
Tara Westover – Educated