Leslie Jamison Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding, but find some love in the blood.

  Leslie Jamison

  Pain, Yield, Blood

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.167, Granta Books

• Post-​wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-​pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-​absorption without self-​awareness.

  Leslie Jamison

  Sarcastic, Hurt, Clever

• Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.

  Leslie Jamison

  Pain, Too Much, Failing

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.21, Granta Books

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