Tara Westover Quotes

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.

I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.

When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

My mother fiercely valued education. She entered college the same year I did, in 1979, and graduated eight years later. She was a remarkable role model for all of us.

Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I love the women who are coming back to school and getting their degrees because they're so focused.

The fact that I am getting a doctorate in spite of being a college drop-out proves that the world can be your university.

Part of the reason I went to college was that I wanted to fade out peacefully: show everybody I had gone through something that was quite challenging and difficult but did so with grace and poise and got an education.

You can always go to uni later on in life. There's no set way. If you are at uni, work hard. Strive for your best.

I study to learn, to be an educated person.

Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

Education is an incredibly personal issue for me. If you're the first generation to go to college, sometimes you don't realize your potential until others point it out.

When things are bad, it's the best time to reinvent yourself.

You know, I've had my ups and downs.

I could not agree more. The students of Delaware State often looked to the school as their chance, their hand up, their hope. And they gave their all.

Well, I always wanted to be educated and be prepared.