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Educated
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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.

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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.

Tara Westover

educationself-awareness

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.

Tara Westover

loveletting go

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

self-discoveryfreedom

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.

Tara Westover

open-mindednessself-development

You can't just change the past. You can't just say what you wanted and make it true.

Tara Westover

pasttruth

The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.

Tara Westover

learningpatience

Some people are born into a world that they are not meant for.

Tara Westover

destinystruggle

I had crossed a line and my father, my family, my friends, would never forgive me.

Tara Westover

forgivenessconsequences

I had begun to understand that we had lent our voices to a discourse whose sole purpose was to dehumanize and brutalize others.

Tara Westover

equalitycompassion

I had to believe it was still possible to change the course of my life.

Tara Westover

hopeself-improvement