Tara Westover Quotes


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.


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Westover, Tara. Interview by Emma Brockes. The Guardian, Guardian News & Media, 17 Feb. 2018.

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Tara Westover
Tara Westover
  • Born: September 27, 1986
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Historian Author

Tara Westover is an American memoirist, essayist and historian. Her memoir Educated (2018) debuted at #1 on The New York Times bestseller list and was a finalist for a number of national awards, including the LA Times Book Prize, PEN America's Jean Stein Book Award, and two awards from the National Book Critics Circle Award. The New York Times ranked Educated as one of the 10 Best Books of 2018. Because of her book, Westover was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2019.