
"Educated" Quotes
A memoir of resilience and self-discovery as Tara Westover recounts her journey from a harsh upbringing in a strict and isolated household to pursuing education and breaking free from her past.
nonfiction | 334 pages | Published in 2018
Quotes
I had no real education. I was a hard worker, I was good at reading, I was good at math, but I wasn't educated.
You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them. You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.
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.
I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create.
You can't just change the past. You can't just say what you wanted and make it true.
The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.
Some people are born into a world that they are not meant for.
I had crossed a line and my father, my family, my friends, would never forgive me.
I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others.
I had to believe it was still possible to change the course of my life.