Leslie Jamison Quotes about Hurt

All Leslie Jamison Quotes Empathy Hurt quotes Pain Writing

Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.

Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.

Hurt, Commonality

Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.13, 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

We don't want to be wounds ("No, you're the wound!") but we should be allowed to have them, to speak about having them, to be something more than just another girl who has one. We should be able to do these things without failing the feminism of our mothers, and we should be able to represent women who hurt without walking backward into a voyeuristic rehashing of the old cultural models.

Leslie Jamison

Girl, Mother, Hurt

Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.174, Granta Books

Leslie Jamison Quotes about Hurt

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