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Checkout quotes by Tara Westover on Family

• ‟ My parents would say to me, 'You can teach yourself anything better than someone else can teach it to you.' That was the whole ethos of my family.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I felt like I needed to come to terms with the decision I'd made to let go of my family. What do you do when you want to be loyal to your family but you feel that loyalty to them is in conflict somehow with loyalty to yourself?

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• ‟ I spent my summers bottling peaches and my winters rotating supplies. When the World of Men failed, my family would continue on, unaffected.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I felt like we had stories about family loyalty; I didn't feel like we had stories about what to do when you felt that loyalty to your family was in conflict with loyalty to yourself.

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• ‟ Learning in our family was entirely self-directed.

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• ‟ I didn't know if I would ever reconcile with my family, and I needed to believe that I could forgive, regardless.

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• ‟ My family always spent the warm months bottling fruit for storage, which Dad said we'd need in the Days of Abomination.

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• ‟ For a long time, I didn't think I had the right to walk away from my family.

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