Rebecca Solnit Quotes About Empathy

Quotes about: Empathy

• What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. Which means that a place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Art, Mean, Sea

  "The Faraway Nearby". Book by Rebecca Solnit, www.npr.org. June 6, 2013.

• Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Kindness, Empathy, Gender

  "A Rape a Minute, a Thousand Corpses a Year" by Rebecca Solnit, www.motherjones.com. January 25, 2013.

• We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Empathy

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.74, Granta Books

• A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Art, Imagination, Empathy

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.5, Granta Books

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