In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even the flaws they are admitting are somehow noble, or dysfunctional in an overly edgy, aesthetically pleasing way.
We don't want to be wounds ("No, you're the wound!") but we should be allowed to have them, to speak about having them, to be something more than jus… - Leslie Jamison
We don't want to be wounds ("No, you're the wound!") but we should be allowed to have them, to speak about having them, to be something more than jus…
- Leslie Jamison
I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping where you put your attention and the… - Leslie Jamison
I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally - that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping where you put your attention and the…
Whatever we can’t hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it. - Leslie Jamison
Whatever we can’t hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it.
Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt. - Leslie Jamison
Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.
Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a choice we make: to pay attention,… - Leslie Jamison
Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a choice we make: to pay attention,…
Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely f… - Leslie Jamison
Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely f…
No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries. - Leslie Jamison
No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.
I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empath… - Leslie Jamison
I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empath…
Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writi… - Leslie Jamison
Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writi…
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