American - Historian | 1986 -
My family always spent the warm months bottling fruit for storage, which Dad said we'd need in the Days of Abomination.
Tara Westover
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I think for people who are inside these relationships that are really hard to leave, there is always a compelling reason to stay. It's not that they are wholly bad people.
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Because I never attended elementary schools of any kind, I missed most of the books that were popular with other kids my age. There was an exception, however, which was 'Harry Potter.' My grandmother gave me the first book when I was about 13, and I read it, then read all the rest.
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I didn't read much in high school, maybe because I didn't go to high school. Instead, I worked.
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When I was 17, I went to Brigham Young University. That was the first time I had set foot in a classroom.
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At BYU, I discovered history, then historiography. I became fascinated with the study of historians and historical trends, with the idea that the way we remember the past changes and shifts with our own preoccupations.
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Psychologically, when you hear something a number of times, you start to believe it.
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I don't really feel like I belong anywhere.
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I think reading an audiobook is a real skill - for one thing, you have to be able to do impressions and voices, which I cannot do - and it's just not a skill I have.
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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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I had access to books, and I could read... but that more foundational, basic historical awareness, I didn't have any of that.
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I think that when memoir goes wrong, it goes wrong from too much memory, too much detail. It's about clearing all that away and just getting to the story.
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