“Empathy is an act of the imagination that grows from a gut-twinge of sympathy, a notion that I would not like to feel what that poor other person is feeling. We override our own flinching instinct to ask what another person's suffering might feel like.” PainSufferingEmpathyChronic Pain Book:Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System Source: Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System