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Sonya Huber

“Empathy is an act of the imagination that grows from a gut-twinge of sympathy, a notion that I would not like to feel what that poor other person is feeling. We override our own flinching instinct to ask what another person's suffering might feel like.”

Sonya Huber, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System
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Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System (American Lives) Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System by Sonya Huber
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