“Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.” KnowsNeedsMeanImaginationAnswersKnowingListeningEmpathyAskingHorizonInquiryJust ListenOf Context Book:The Empathy Exams: Essays Source: The Empathy Exams: Essays
“When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.” PeopleIfsKnowsHappenedEmpathyHappeningsThings HappenBad ThingsTheftBad Things Happen Book:The Empathy Exams: Essays Source: The Empathy Exams: Essays
“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.” KnowsSelfPlayMomentsMightPainLanguageHurtAwarenessShameSelf AwarenessCarefulIntellectCleverPityPostsNativeSarcasticConceptionSplitsWoundedWomanhoodPostureSelf PityAbsorptionJadedDialectMelodramaSelf AbsorptionOpaqueNative Language Author:Leslie Jamison
