Love and Letting Go

The most powerful determinant of who you are is inside you.

Tara Westover – Educated

I am not the child my parents raised, but I am the person I have chosen to become.

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

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

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

Tara Westover – Educated