Famous Leslie Jamison Quotes

  • This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It’s a quick fix of empathy. – Leslie Jamison

    This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It’s a quick fix of empathy.– Leslie Jamison

  • Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. – Leslie Jamison

    Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.– Leslie Jamison

  • Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. – Leslie Jamison

    Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to.– Leslie Jamison

  • Imagining someone else’s pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it. – Leslie Jamison

    Imagining someone else’s pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.– Leslie Jamison

  • Empathy is a kind of care but it’s not the only kind of care, and it’s not always enough. – Leslie Jamison

    Empathy is a kind of care but it’s not the only kind of care, and it’s not always enough.– Leslie Jamison

  • I didn’t enjoy what was happening but I enjoyed who I was while I was watching it. It offered evidence of my own inclination toward empathy. – Leslie Jamison

    I didn’t enjoy what was happening but I enjoyed who I was while I was watching it. It offered evidence of my own inclination toward empathy.– Leslie Jamison

  • It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling. – Leslie Jamison

    It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.– Leslie Jamison

  • facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been. – Leslie Jamison

    facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been.– Leslie Jamison

  • Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight. – Leslie Jamison

    Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.– Leslie Jamison

  • We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too. – Leslie Jamison

    We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.– Leslie Jamison