Tara Westover: Quotes about understanding

Tara Westover is American historian and author. Explore interesting quotes on understanding.

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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.”

Source: Educated (2018)

“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 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)