Celebrate Quote by Meghan O'Rourke

What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

— Meghan O'Rourke

Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.

— Vera Caslavska

Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who…

— Dominique Moceanu

There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

— Meghan O'Rourke

It's that deep-seeded societal gender norm that women, for some reason, aren't elite athletes, when we are. We really are. I think we fight…

— Becky Sauerbrunn

The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about the rings, and I'll have to say, 'Women…

— McKayla Maroney

As female athletes, we're all strong. We all have gone through something in our life that has helped shape us to where we are.

— Breanna Stewart

“While sports are indisputably a positive source of strength and self-development for girls, they can accomplish this only if the environment in which female…

— Leslie Heywood

It's interesting when people say, 'You always play strong women,' because as far as I'm concerned, women are strong. I think that's what women…

— Maxine Peake

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like…

— Louise Erdrich

The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well…

— Anson Dorrance

Women should realise their strength and set goals.

— Sudha Murty