American - Poet | 1976 -
My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.
Meghan O'Rourke
MotherDayDeepThoughtFakeNever
Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.
WritingWorldWayAlwaysSenseBeen
One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.
MotherHomeDeathWorldYearAnchor
Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling.
GriefWavesFeelingMoreDifferent
If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
GriefPersonalUniversalCondition
One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.
LifeWorkIdeasMy LifeEnoughTry
My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.
MotherTimeDayDeathThoughtLook
When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.
MotherMyselfSickThinkRemember
Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.
SeaBrainShipMindsMysteriousUs
And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.
MotherDeathPeopleMoreOpenAfter
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 vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.
StrengthTimeTalkingEasyFall
Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.
BlackWearBeatOurMournPublic
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