# Quote — Tara Westover, Educated

> 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. 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. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me.

- Author: [Tara Westover](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover.md)
- Book: [Educated](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated.md)
- Page: 304
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated/everything-i-had

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> 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)