Quotes by Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays

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Empathy isn't just listening, it's asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. — Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays
This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It' — Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays
Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. — Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays
Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry a — Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays
It's easier, somehow, if there's a reason for tragedy - lust or jealousy or hatred or revenge. We can find in these expl — Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays
No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries. — Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays
Metaphors are tiny saviors leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging "Say it new! Say it n — Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays
Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their speech, to show wh — Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays
The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: ke — Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays