Meghan O'Rourke Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• 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.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Home, Years

• I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Spring, Eye

• A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Stories

  "Story's end" by Meghan O'Rourke, www.newyorker.com. March 07, 2011.

• A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Sky, Wake Up

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.14, Penguin

• Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Loss, Knowing

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.14, Penguin

• A mother is the portal by which you enter the world.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, World, Portal

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

• The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Needs, World

• A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Notion

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.16, Penguin

• 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.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Cancer, Breathing

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.14, Penguin

• And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Struggle, Loss

  "Meghan O'Rourke: The Long Good-Bye". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. April 26, 2011.

• 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

  Mother, Holiday, Fake

• But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Believe, Gone

• I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Brother, Fall

• 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.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Thinking, Sick

  "Meghan O'Rourke: The Long Good-Bye". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. April 26, 2011.

• Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother

• I was not raised with religion, and I had no faith before my mother died. On the other hand, when she died, I did not immediately feel she was "gone." I don't believe she is in something like heaven, but I also feel that we don't understand much about the nature of the universe. So I hold on to that uncertainty, at times.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Believe, Hands

  "Ask the Author Live: Meghan O'Rourke on Grief". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. March 2, 2011.

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