What is a person but a collection of choices? Where do those choices come from? Do I choose them, or do they choose me?
Tara Westover – Educated
Nature of Choice
N
Intellectual Autonomy
I
If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind.
Tara Westover – Educated
Discovering New Life
D
There is a world beyond the mountain. There is life as I had never lived it.
Tara Westover – Educated
Future Over Past
F
The past was a ghost, insubstantial, unaffecting. Only the future had weight.
Tara Westover – Educated
Self-Determination
S
I am not the child my parents raised, but I am the person I have chosen to become.
Tara Westover – Educated