Cheryl Strayed is the author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things.

“There's a long history, of women especially, saying 'Well, I just got lucky.' I didn't just get lucky. I worked my fucking ass off. And then I got lucky. And if I hadn't worked my ass off, I wouldn't have gotten lucky. You have to do the work. You always have to do the work.”

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The Complete Dear Sugar Archive

Strayed on Longform

[1:00] Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Knopf • 2012)

[1:00] Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar (Vintage • 2012)

[4:00] "Dear Sugar #44: How You Get Unstuck" (The Rumpus • July 2010)

[9:00] "What Wild Has Wrought" (Nicholas Kristof • May 2015 )

[13:00] Torch (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt • 2006)

[28:00] "Dear Sugar #48: Write Like a Motherfucker" (The Rumpus • Aug 2010)

[28:00] "Write Like a Motherfucker" coffee mug

[1:11:00] Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer • Random House • 1996)

[1:13:00] "Oprah Talks to Cheryl Strayed" (O Magazine • July 2012)

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