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Tara Westover
Tara Westover
American Historian
Born: 1986
Education Family Me People Think You
Related authors: Barbara W. Tuchman Carter G. Woodson Daniel J. Boorstin David McCullough Henry Adams James Truslow Adams Robert Fogel Will Durant
Forgiveness isn't just the absence of anger. I think it's also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself. Tara Westover
Forgiveness You Anger Yourself Value Think Absence Also Self-Love Begin Just Actually Presence
I felt like we had stories about family loyalty; I didn't feel like we had stories about what to do when you felt that loyalty to your family was in conflict with loyalty to yourself. Tara Westover
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It's very difficult to continue to believe in yourself and that you're a good person when the people who know you best don't. Tara Westover
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I taught myself algebra and a little grammar, and somehow I scraped a high enough score on the ACT to be admitted to Brigham Young University, even though I had no formal education. Tara Westover
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My parents would say to me, 'You can teach yourself anything better than someone else can teach it to you.' That was the whole ethos of my family. Tara Westover
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I had been raised in the mountains of Idaho by a father who distrusted many of the institutions that people take for granted - public education, doctors and hospitals, and the government. Tara Westover
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I was 17 the first time I set foot in a classroom, but 10 years later, I would graduate from Cambridge with a Ph.D. 'Educated' is the story of how I came by my education. It is also the story of how I lost my family. Tara Westover
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When I was 17, I went to Brigham Young University. That was the first time I had set foot in a classroom. Tara Westover
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Psychologically, when you hear something a number of times, you start to believe it. Tara Westover
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Although my family attended the same church as everyone in our town, our religion was not the same. I could stand with my family or with the gentiles... but there was no foothold in between. Tara Westover
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At BYU, I discovered history, then historiography. I became fascinated with the study of historians and historical trends, with the idea that the way we remember the past changes and shifts with our own preoccupations. Tara Westover
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I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley, and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring. Tara Westover
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Anger can be a good thing. It's a mechanism that your brain uses to get you out of situations that are bad for you. But in terms of leading a peaceful life, it is not very productive. Tara Westover
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I had a mental breakdown while doing my Ph.D. at Cambridge, soon after I cut off contact with my parents, and I started seeing the university counsellor, one of the best decisions I ever made. There's something very nourishing in setting aside an hour a week to talk. Tara Westover
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If you want to live a miserable life, making your life all about other people is the way to do it. Tara Westover
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I think for people who are inside these relationships that are really hard to leave, there is always a compelling reason to stay. It's not that they are wholly bad people. Tara Westover
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I do think we have collectively begun to conflate the institutions of education for education itself. Education is an individual's pursuit of understanding and has a lot of implications for that person, for the kind of person that they are. Tara Westover
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I have books I like very much, but I don't think there are any books that everyone should read. I prefer a world in which some people read this, and others read that. Tara Westover
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I think you can change your belief, but sometimes your behavior takes a lot longer. Tara Westover
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There was a lot of beauty in my childhoood. Tara Westover
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It was a quality of my childhood that everything had these two sides. Even though things could be really beautiful and peaceful one moment, they could also be a bit chaotic or maybe terrifying in another. Tara Westover
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We think love is noble, and in some ways, it is. But in some ways, it isn't. Love is just love. And sometimes people do terrible things because of it. Tara Westover
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Publishing a book is a very different thing than writing one. Tara Westover
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Things that I now recognise as just part of my personality - willfulness and assertiveness, maybe even a bit of aggressiveness - these are things that I had been raised to think of as masculine features. I always thought there was probably something wrong with me. Tara Westover
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My mother was a midwife and a herbalist, so we would go on these long walks, looking for yarrow or rosehips or whatever she needed to make her tinctures. Tara Westover
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I hate the the word 'disempower,' because it seems kind of cliche, but I do think that we take people's ability to self-teach away by creating this idea that that someone else has to do this for you, that you have to take a course, you have to do it in some formal way. Tara Westover
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