144 Quotes by Tara Westover

I think reading an audiobook is a real skill - for one thing, you have to be able to do impressions and voices, which I cannot do - and it's just not a skill I have.

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.

I adore Toni Morrison. I think we would all be better writers if we read more of her.

I have a theory that all abuse, no matter what kind of abuse it is, is foremost an assault on the mind.

I didn't read much in high school, maybe because I didn't go to high school. Instead, I worked.

Publishing a book is a very different thing than writing one.

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

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.

I can't have my family in my life because they are abusive, and I don't have control over that. There is an abusive culture in my family, and I have to turn away from it.