You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them, she says now. You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.
Tara Westover – Educated
Love and Letting Go
L
Dehumanization for Power
D
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
Personal Growth
P
An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.
Tara Westover – Educated
Emotional Vulnerability
E
It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.
Tara Westover – Educated
Family Influence
F
I am not the child my father raised, but he is the father who raised her.
Tara Westover – Educated
Inherent Self
I
Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were.
Tara Westover – Educated
Intellectual Independence
I
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
Complexity of Self
C
We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell.
Tara Westover – Educated
Internal Determinants
I
The most powerful determinant of who you are is inside you.
Tara Westover – Educated
Transformation Through Education
T
You could call this self-hood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal. I call it an education.
Tara Westover – Educated