Educated

"The most important education was learning to think for myself."

"I realized that I could be both grateful for my upbringing and critical of it."

"I had to learn that my feelings were valid, even if my family said they weren't."

"Education gave me permission to disagree with my father."

"I chose to believe in myself, even when no one else did."

"I had never questioned anything before. Now I questioned everything."

"My father had taught me to fear the world, but the world had taught me something else."

"I was not the person I had been raised to be."

"It was a strange thing to realize that I had been lonely my whole life."

"I had been defined by my father's beliefs, but I could choose to define myself."

"I learned that if you have a good story, you can survive anything."

"Knowledge had come to me, and I had come to knowledge."

"I had never been free. I had never believed myself capable of being free."

"The person you become depends on the person you decide to be."

"I had come to understand that I was not the person I had believed myself to be."

"I was my father's daughter. But I was also myself."

"That was when I understood that we had different memories of the same event."

"I was afraid I had been damned for wanting to know things that my father did not want me to know."

"You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them."

"I had a choice. I could let what he had done to me define who I was, and then limit myself out of fear. Or I could define myself for myself, and then try to live up to that definition."

"Education was my way out."

"I had to forgive myself for believing what I was taught."

"Knowledge was the only weapon I had."

"I was learning to live with the consequences of the truth."

"My education had made me a stranger to my family."

"I had to choose between two worlds."

"The truth was harder to accept than the lies I had been told."

"I was my father's daughter, but I was also my own person."

"Education gave me the tools to understand the world."

"I had to become a new person to survive."