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Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Freedom from one man is just another one.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

Edith Evans

Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

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

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Empathy isn't just listening, it's asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

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

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Many people want to send their children to faith schools because they get good exam results, but they're not foolish enough to believe that it's because of faith that they get good exam results.

Richard Dawkins

This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It's a quick fix of empathy.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

I remember I was supposed to take the bar exam that summer just when we got the chance to make our first feature. I told my parents I wasn't going to take the bar exam, and they were pretty upset about it.

Kevin Heffernan

Most women don't do regular breast self examinations, mainly because they are either intimidated by what they might find, or they're confused as to how to do the self exam correctly. 'Liv Aid' eliminates all of these concerns because it makes breast ...

Olivia Newton-John

The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding, but find some love in the blood.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

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

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is disgusted by this. Part of me celebrates it.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Bolivian women sewed their lips shut for days. They threaded needles through their skin to stop their speech, to show what good speaking had done them.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

CSIR-UGC NET exam is being rated as one of the most challenging competitive exams, however it is not that difficult to clear once you have an experienced and trusted adviser who can help you choose a well defined strategy.

Life

I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what it's shown.

The Empathy Exams: Essays

Another oral exam, huh?' Peter said. 'Shut up, Peter,' said Valentine. 'You should relax and enjoy it,' said Peter. 'It could be worse.' 'I don't know how.' 'It could be an anal exam.

Ender's Game