Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World

by Eliza Reid

Everyone must create their own priorities and choose where to concentrate limited energies on any given day. Certainly, it’s the greatest waste of energy to stare at all the fallen balls and worry we dropped the wrong ones. Accept imperfection. Ask for help. Offer it. No one is an island. If we have a smaller or no safety net to catch us, then it’s all the more important to heed the advice piped over the loudspeakers every time we fly: Put the oxygen mask on yourself before assisting others. And breathe deeply.

“We are always told it’s not the right time. You’re too young, then you’re supposed to be having kids, then your kids are too young, then you’re in menopause, and then you’re too old and collecting your pension, and all of a sudden, you realize there was no time for you to do anything