Quotes by : Leslie Jamison

Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part....

It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

Sure, some news is bigger news than other news. War is bigger news than a girl having mixed feelings....

This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us,....

Empathy comes from the Greek empatheia - em (into) and pathos (feeling) - a penetration, a kind of travel.....

I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.....

Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their....

We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.

It's easier, somehow, if there's a reason for tragedy - lust or jealousy or hatred or revenge. We can....

It was a look that suggested emotions happening just past your line of sight: a grief so deep you'd never....