Quotes by : Leslie Jamison

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

That was a moment where something clarified about shame for me: it’s not just something negative but....

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

Freedom from one man is just another one.

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

Empathy is a kind of care but it’s not the only kind of care, and it’s not always enough.

Metaphors are tiny saviors leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging "Say....

We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want....

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

Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.