And after my mother’s death I became more open to and empathetic about other people’s struggles and losses. Meghan O'Rourke Read Quote
There is always tension in women’s gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros. Meghan O'Rourke Read Quote
Many Americans don’t mourn in public anymore – we don’t wear black, we don’t beat our chests and wail. Meghan O'Rourke Read Quote
But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone. Meghan O'Rourke Read Quote
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 the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore. Meghan O'Rourke Read Quote
Hamlet’ is the best description of grief I’ve read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it. Meghan O'Rourke Read Quote
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it’s also to feel, quite powerfully, that you’re not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief – that to do so would be taboo somehow. Meghan O'Rourke Read Quote
A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That’s what makes her a mother. Meghan O'Rourke Read Quote
