115 Quotes by Meghan O'Rourke

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

Be patient with yourself. Don’t make the loss harder by thinking you should be a certain way, or have bounced back, etc.

The truth is, I need to experience my mother’s presence in the world around me and not just in my head.

Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession – it’s sad that we don’t have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.

When we are learning the world, we know things we cannot say how we know. When we are relearning the world in the aftermath of a loss, we feel things we had almost forgotten, old things, beneath the seat of reason.

For sure, the funeral industry seems intensely cynical to me and I don’t think it is HELPING people mourn.

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.