Who said "To understand another's pain is to transcend one's own."?

This quote is attributed to Joyce Carol Oates.

To understand another's pain is to transcend one's own. - Joyce Carol Oates

"To understand another's pain is to transcend one's own."

Joyce Carol Oates

Novelist American Born 1938 (age 88)

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