“The critics barged in to harp on every decision we made... Sadly, I began to doubt myself. Maybe I was too young. Maybe I wasn’t a good enough sailor.”

Source: Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (2011), p. 48

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