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