Glennon Doyle’s latest offering marks a change in direction
Glennon Doyle – wife, mother, lesbian, blogger, former Instagram phenomenon, political influencer – says “we can do hard things.” This aphorism, taken from a poster in a classroom back when she was a third-grade teacher in Virginia, might just be one of the most successful dicta to emerge in recent American history – more successful, even, than Barack Obama’s “Yes we can!” When Joe Biden won the presidency in November 2020, his campaign manager swiftly tweeted “We can do hard things... and you just did!” Months later, in January 2021, Democrat Chuck Schumer, addressing Congress after the siege of the Capitol, declared: “In America, we do hard things.
