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I wanted the kind of mom I’d see on TV, or the kind of South Asian mom who oiled their daughter’s hair and smothered their children in kisses—whenever they were proud, or whenever their child was sad. Or simply just because. Mom was always ...more
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“The world does not belong to:
one class, one gender,
one race, one tribe,
one religion, nor one nation,
nor one people.
The world belongs to everyone.”
Matshona Dhliwayo

“Well, maybe we set high expectations for the people in our lives and when they don’t live up to those expectations, we feel betrayed and it feels like it was all a lie. But it’s not a lie. It’s just that we’ve built up this perspective in our head. And our perspective lets us down.”
B.F. Queen, The Chance

Tara Westover
“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
Tara Westover, Educated

Celeste Ng
“Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then. You just have to carry them with you.”
Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

Tara Westover
“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”
Tara Westover, Educated

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