An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self. You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal. I call it an education.

The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self. You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal. I call it an education

The ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, [is] at the heart of what it means to self-create.

Choices, numberless as grains of sand, had layered and compressed, coalescing into sediment, then into rock, until all was set in stone.

You are not fool's gold, shining only under a particular light. Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were. It may change how others see you, it may even change how you see yourself— even gold appears dull in some lighting— but that is the illusion