No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

 . ISBN 978-1-59359-979-9. Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny.

Martha Nibley Beck (born November 29 1962) is an American sociologist therapist life coach and best-selling author. 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 Martha Beck accuses her father of sexual abuse.