Martha Beck Quotes
Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.
Beck, Martha. Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live. Crown Publishers, 2001.
Martha Nibley Beck is an American author, life coach, and speaker who specializes in helping individuals and groups achieve greater levels of personal and professional success. She holds three degrees, a BA, MA and PhD from Harvard University. Beck is the daughter of deceased LDS Church scholar and apologist, Hugh Nibley. She received national attention after publication in 2005 of her best-seller, Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith in which she recounts her experiences of surviving sexual abuse. In addition to authoring several books, Beck is a columnist for O, The Oprah Magazine.