“What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.” ThinkingWaySportsComplicatedVulnerabilityGymnastics Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.” WorldWayWritingPrimariesMake Sense Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells. Stop Wanting reveals, in every lyric, its author's profound metaphorical gifts. In its ironies and intensities, it brings to mind a writer like the young Sylvia Plath, though what is startling about Harris' s work is the way it combines those gifts with a muted, deft self-awareness. Most of all, these are wonderfully shaped, powerful, and surprising poems-a startling debut.” WayMindMadeBookSelfStoriesYoungPowerfulAwarenessSelf AwarenessProfoundExtraordinaryCraftsIronyIntensitySurprisingDebutMetaphoricalFerocityPersonal StoriesPlath Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“There is no single way of grieving. But research suggests that there are some broad similarities among grievers.” WayResearchGrievingBroadsSimilarityGrievers Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“While I did a lot of research, I ended up feeling that the best way to write about grief was to describe it from the inside out - the show the strange intensities that come along with it, the peculiar thoughts, the longing for that past - all the strange moments of thinking you glimpse the dead person on the street, or in your dreams.” ThinkingWayWritingPersonsMomentsShowsFeelingsDreamPastGriefStreetsStrangeResearchLongingBest WayYour DreamsIntensityPeculiarGlimpse Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“I have seen that grief can be very different for different people. While the range of emotions experienced is similar, the way we deal with those emotions isn't, necessarily.” PeopleWayDifferentDealsGriefEmotionRangeDifferent PeoplesRange Of Emotions Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“Be patient with yourself. Don't make the loss harder by thinking you should be a certain way, or have bounced back, etc.” ThinkingWayShouldCertainLossHarderPatientEtcBe Patient Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“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.” WaySourceCostApproachStressFuneralHumaneRecessionsBurial Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the ways in which the dead drag us along into their shadowy realm because we cannot let them go. So we follow them into the Underworld, descending, descending, until one day we turn and make our way back.” WayStoriesDesireTurnsOne DayRealmsDragUnderworldDescendingOrpheus Author:Meghan O'Rourke
