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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

Anyone who grows up reading the Bible for spiritual reasons, you get accustomed to reading things that are too much for you, too profound for you... Having that belief that you should read them anyway gives you a great advantage over people who only read what they think they can understand. Tara Westover

Great Spiritual You Bible People Too Much Reading Think Too Having Only Gives Advantage Over Read Understand Up Get Accustomed Anyone Anyway Them Much Should Who Reasons Belief Grows Things Profound Great Advantage

Academic writing is such a different way of writing. Tara Westover

Writing Way Academic Different Different Way

I think it's a belief that you can learn something. That's something that I really value from the upbringing I got. Tara Westover

You Value Think Something Learn Got Upbringing Really Belief

I might just not be a big-city bug. Tara Westover

Bug Just Might

During my first semester of college, I raised my hand in a class and asked the professor to define a word I didn't know. The word was holocaust, and I had to ask because, until that moment, I had never heard of it. Tara Westover

Class Word College First Define Never Had Know Until Because Heard Hand Semester Ask Asked Holocaust Moment Professor Raised

We'd had books in my house growing up, but we had never had anything like lectures. I had never written an essay for my mother. I had never taken an exam. Because I was working a lot as a kid, I just hadn't elected to read that much. Tara Westover

I don't really feel like I belong anywhere. Tara Westover

Feel Like Anywhere Really Belong

There's a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain. Tara Westover

Life Sense Mountain Sovereignty

Not knowing my birthday had never seemed strange. I knew I'd been born near the end of September, and each year I picked a day, one that didn't fall on a Sunday because it's no fun spending your birthday in church. Tara Westover

Day Birthday Strange Church Sunday Year Fall Not Knowing September Spending No Fun Born Seemed Never Had Picked Knew Day One Knowing Because Been End Your Fun Each Near Each Year

When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world. Tara Westover

You World Perspective Someone Abuse Limit Them View Your Trap

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