Important Reasons Quotes by Leslie Jamison

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Leslie Jamison has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon…
• We don't want to be wounds ("No, you're the wound!") but we should be allowed to have them, to speak about having…
• Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.
• Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination.…
• No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.
• I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.
• When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.
• Whatever we can’t hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it.

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