# Tara Westover

- Quotes: 22
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover

## Books

- [Educated](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated.md) — 22 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> 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.

p. 180 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated/by-the-end.md)

> By the end of the semester the world felt big, and it was hard to imagine returning to the mountain, to a kitchen, or even to a piano in the room next to the kitchen.
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> This caused a kind of crisis in me. My love of music, and my desire to study it, had been compatible with my idea of what a woman is. My love of history and politics and world affairs was not. And yet they called to me.

p. 228 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated/by-the-end-of.md)

> I searched my mind and discovered a new conviction there: I would never be a plural wife. A voice declared this with unyielding finality; the declaration made me tremble. What if God commanded it? I asked. You wouldn’t do it, the voice answered. And I knew it was true.

p. 246 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated/i-searched-my-mind.md)

> I had discerned the ways in which we had been sculpted by a tradition given to us by others, a tradition of which we were either willfully or accidentally ignorant. 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.

p. 180 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated/i-had-discerned.md)

> 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.

p. 197 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated/to-admit-uncertainty.md)

> 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.

p. 30 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated/the-irony-was.md)

> Curiosity is a luxury reserved for the financially secure.

p. 203 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated/curiosity-is-a-luxury.md)

> 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.

p. 157 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated/i-dont-know.md)

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

p. 60 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated/the-seed-of-curiosity.md)

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

p. 301 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated/when-life-itself.md)

> That’s all that was left of the life I’d had here: a puzzle whose rules I would never understand, because they were not rules at all but a kind of cage meant to enclose me. I could stay, and search for what had been home, or I could go, now, before the walls shifted and the way out was shut.

p. 310 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated/thats-all-that.md)

> 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.
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> You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal.
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> I call it an education.

p. 329 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated/the-decisions-i-made.md)