Eliza Reid > Quotes

“I maintain my sanity because I feel comfortable with what I have chosen to let tumble for a moment while I focus on keeping something else aloft. 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.”
― Eliza Reid, Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World

“Beyond the coincidental connections outlined earlier, they were all linked by a shared love of outdoor (though diverse) pursuits and by being women over forty, fully into their golden fuck-it years, in which trying to impress everyone else finally takes a back seat to personal ambition.”
― Eliza Reid, Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World

“Nevertheless, the Icelandic language remains a source of pride and identity. Famously, rather than adopt foreign terms for new technologies and concepts, various committees establish new Icelandic words to enter the lexicon: tölva (a mixture of “number” and “prophetess”) for computer, friðþjófur (“thief of peace”) for a pager, and skriðdreki (“crawling dragon”) for an armored tank.”
― Eliza Reid, Secrets of the Sprakkar: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World