Complicated Quote by Meghan O'Rourke

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…

— 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

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

Gymnastics is so complex.

— Shawn Johnson

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

In the end, there's more than just gymnastics.

— MyKayla Skinner

I have said that gymnastics can be abusive and brutal. That was my experience. I felt trapped in a world where authority figures were…

— Katelyn Ohashi

I've said before, 'gymnastics is abusive,' but now I know it's not the sport that's abusive - it's the culture that was created and…

— Katelyn Ohashi

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

“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

The truth is, gymnastics is a beautiful sport that has allowed me to grow and learn invaluable life lessons: sacrifice, dedication, discipline. Eventually, it…

— Katelyn Ohashi