Best Meghan O'Rourke Quotes
- What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport. Complicated
- Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world. Been
- I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past… Cardinal
- It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability… All
- My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death,… Breathing
- My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed… Card
- One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that… Anchor
- Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is… Absorb
- When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them,… All
- A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to… Adjust
- I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first… Better
- All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall. All
- But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the… Alone
- I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that… Believe
- Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona. Disruption
- This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large part… Altered
- My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them. Called
- A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in… All
- Loss doesn't feel redeemable. But for me one consoling aspect is the recognition that, in this at least, none of us is different from anyone… All
- 'Hamlet' is a play about a man whose grief is deemed unseemly. Deemed
- 'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it. Best
- Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess… Close
- A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her. Beginning
- What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted… Belief
- Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the… Along