First find out what you are capable of, then decide who you are.
Tara Westover – Educated
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Books that are based on facts, real events, and real lives.
Books that are based on facts, real events, and real lives.
First find out what you are capable of, then decide who you are.
Tara Westover – Educated
It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.
Tara Westover – Educated
An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.
Tara Westover – Educated
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
I am not the child my father raised, but he is the father who raised her.
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