“ 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, to extend ourselves. It's made of exertion, that d… 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
“ 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
“ Jim was the one who told me that my emotional life made him dangle his stethoscope like a snake charmer: my moods weren’t hard to see but they were hard to read, and even harder to diagnose. It was os… Leslie Jamison
“ Empathy comes from the Greek empatheia - em (into) and pathos (feeling) - a penetration, a kind of travel. It suggests you enter another person's pain as you'd enter another country, through immigrati… Leslie Jamison
“ It was a look that suggested emotions happening just past your line of sight: a grief so deep you'd never be able to see it, a love so fierce it could swallow itself completely. Leslie Jamison
“ We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them. Leslie Jamison
“ Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated. Leslie Jamison
“ A cry for attention is positioned as a crime, as if attention were inherently a selfish thing to want. But isn’t wanting attention one of the most fundamental traits of being human—and isn’t granting… Leslie Jamison
