TagTara Westover

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

First find out what you are capable of, then decide who you are.

Tara Westover – Educated

I am not the child my father raised, but he is the father who raised her.

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

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