It’s not about being right. It’s about being able to stand on your own two feet.
Tara Westover – Educated
Self-Sufficiency
S
Patience in Learning
P
The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.
Tara Westover – Educated
Gender Identity
G
I am only a woman if woman is something one becomes, not something one is born.
Tara Westover – Educated
Nature of Choice
N
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
Life’s Complexity
L
A person’s life is not a narrative. It’s a collage.
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
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
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
Thoughtful Silence
T
Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
Jonathan Eig – Ali: A Life