Rebecca Solnit Quotes about Empathy

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We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.

We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.

Rebecca Solnit

Empathy

Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.74, Granta Books

A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

Rebecca Solnit

Art, Imagination, Empathy

Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.5, Granta Books