“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)

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