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Tara Westover Quotes

American - Historian | 1986 -

I have very non-eccentric hobbies. I like to read, to have dinner with friends, and junk out on TV like everybody else.

Dinner Friends Hobbies Out Junk TV

My mother was a midwife and a herbalist, so we would go on these long walks, looking for yarrow or rosehips or whatever she needed to make her tinctures.

Mother Looking Long Go She Whatever

I had a mental breakdown while doing my Ph.D. at Cambridge, soon after I cut off contact with my parents, and I started seeing the university counsellor, one of the best decisions I ever made. There's something very nourishing in setting aside an hour a week to talk.

Best Parents Decisions Doing Week

In families like mine, there is no crime worse than telling the truth.

Truth Crime Telling The Truth Mine

If you want to live a miserable life, making your life all about other people is the way to do it.

Life Live People You Want Way

I choose not to see my parents because I value myself - and they didn't value me or my mind.

Myself Value Parents Mind Me Choose

I knew how to write like an academic, so I knew how to write academic papers and essays and things. But the things that are great for an essay are unbearable in narrative writing.

Great Writing Write Academic Things

I think it's a belief that you can learn something. That's something that I really value from the upbringing I got.

Value Think Learn You Belief Got

I hate the the word 'disempower,' because it seems kind of cliche, but I do think that we take people's ability to self-teach away by creating this idea that that someone else has to do this for you, that you have to take a course, you have to do it in some formal way.

Hate People Think Someone You Kind

I think you can change your belief, but sometimes your behavior takes a lot longer.

Change Think Behavior You Sometimes

There's a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain.

Life Mountain Sovereignty Sense

When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world.

Perspective World View Someone You

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