If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.
Meghan O'RourkeMy 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.
Meghan O'RourkeOne 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.
Meghan O'Rourke