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“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

Source: Educated (2018)

“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”

Tara Westover

Educated (2018)

“The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self.
You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal.
I call it an education.”

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 40, “Educated” (p. 329)

“The thing about having a mental breakdown is that no matter how obvious it is that you’re having one, it is somehow not obvious to you.”

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 37, “Gambling for Redemption” (p. 307)

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?”

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 36, “Four Long Arms, Whirling” (p. 301)

“I decided to experiment with normality.”

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 24, “A Knight, Errant” (p. 212)

Tara Westover Quotes about reading

“I don’t know how long I sat there reading about it, but at some point I’d read enough. I leaned back and stared at the ceiling. I suppose I was in shock, but whether it was the shock of learning about something horrific, or the shock of learning about my own ignorance, I’m not sure.”

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 17, “To Keep it Holy” (p. 157; the reference is to the Holocaust)

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

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 6, “Shield and Buckler” (p. 62)

““To write my essay I had to read books differently, without giving myself over to either fear or adoration. ””

Tara Westover book Educated

““To write my essay I had to read books differently, without giving myself over to either fear or adoration. Because Burke had defended the British monarchy, Dad would have said he was an agent of tyranny. He wouldn't have wanted the book in the house. There was a thrill in trusting myself to read the words. I felt a similar thrill in reading Madison, Hamilton and Jay, especially on those occasions when I discarded their conclusions in favor of Burke's, or when it seemed to me that their ideas were not really different in substance, only in form. There were wonderful suppositions embedded in this method of reading: that books are not tricks, and that I was not feeble””

Tara Westover book Educated

Tara Westover Quotes

“I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money.”

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 24, “A Knight, Errant” (p. 207)

“Curiosity is a luxury reserved for the financially secure.”

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 23, “I’m from Idaho” (p. 203)

“To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.”

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 22, “What We Whispered and What We Screamed” (p. 197)

“By the end of it, I had finally begun to grasp something that should have been immediately apparent: that someone had opposed the great march toward equality; someone had been the person from whom freedom had to be wrested.”

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 20, “Recitals of the Fathers” (p. 180; the reference is to the Civil Rights Movement)

“Suspended between fear of the past and fear of the future, I recorded the dream in my journal. Then, without any explanation, as if the connection between the two were obvious, I wrote, I don’t understand why I wasn’t allowed to get a decent education as a child.”

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 18, “Blood and Feathers” (p. 163)

“The seed of curiosity had been planted; it needed nothing more than time and boredom to grow.”

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 6, “Shield and Buckler” (p. 60)

“The irony was that if Dad was bipolar—or had any of a dozen disorders that might explain his behavior—the same paranoia that was a symptom of the illness would prevent its ever being diagnosed and treated. No one would ever know.”

Tara Westover book Educated

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 3, “Cream Shoes” (p. 30)

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