# Quote — Tara Westover, Educated

> 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.

- Author: [Tara Westover](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover.md)
- Book: [Educated](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated.md)
- Page: 157
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tara_Westover#Educated_(2018)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated/i-dont-know

## More from this book

> 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.
>
> 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)