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I eventually made my escape, fleeing England whenever possible for tropical climes where I could indulge my passion for lepidoptery. It was not until my first butterflying expedition at the age of eighteen—a monthlong sojourn in ...more
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Tara Westover
“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
Tara Westover, Educated

Tara Westover
“I carried the books to my room and read through the night. I loved the fiery pages of Mary Wollstonecraft, but there was a single line written by John Stuart Mill that, when I read it, moved the world: "It is a subject on which nothing final can be known." The subject Mill had in mind was the nature of women. Mill claimed that women have been coaxed, cajoled, shoved and squashed into a series of feminine contortions for so many centuries, that it is now quite impossible to define their natural abilities or aspirations.

Blood rushed to my brain; I felt an animating surge of adrenaline, of possibility, of a frontier being pushed outward. Of the nature of women, nothing final can be known. Never had I found such comfort in a void, in the black absence of knowledge. It seemed to say: whatever you are, you are woman.”
Tara Westover, Educated

Tara Westover
“Curiosity is a luxury for the financially secure.”
Tara Westover, Educated

Tara Westover
“What is a person to do, I asked, when their obligations to their family conflict with other obligations—to friends, to society, to themselves?”
Tara Westover, Educated

Tara Westover
“But sometimes I think we choose our illnesses, because they benefit us in some way.”
Tara Westover, Educated

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