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.

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

One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.

What's endlessly complicated in thinking about women's gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.

Time doesn’t obey our commands. You cannot make it holy just because it is disappearing.

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.