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Meghan O'Rourke has 51 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group…
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One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you…
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If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
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The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are…
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Suddenly it was fall, the season of death, the anniversary of things-going-to-hell.
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Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.
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Much of Hamlet is about the precise kind of slippage the mourner experiences: the difference between being and seeming, the uncertainty about…
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A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.
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Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in…
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To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's…
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And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.
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But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.
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Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.
— Svetlana Boginskaya
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[Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes it look…
— Peter Vidmar
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The main thing for a gymnast is total concentration while competing. At such moments one has to put everything else behind. I…
— Ludmilla Tourischeva
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Gymnasts, lazy people, complainers and successful people have all practiced to be what they are good at. So if you keep practicing…
— Tsem Tulku
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I get a lot of flak for it... people saying [my body] is not normal for a girl... But I'm okay with…
— Pink
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You get depressed because you're like, 'Everybody's working and I'm here sitting.' I feel for all gymnasts who get hurt. Injuries are…
— McKayla Maroney
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Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff…
— Joe Biden
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I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking…
— Shannon Miller
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I mean, I take that with the biggest amount of pride there could possibly be because I have so many idols of…
— Kim Zmeskal
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It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more…
— Meghan O'Rourke
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Gymnasts are short, stocky, muscular powerhouses.
— Pink
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