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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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Tara Westover
“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“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

“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

Bob Marley
“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.
None but ourselves can free our minds”
― Bob Marley, Redemption Song Sheet Music

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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