Quotes About Empathy

In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things.

People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.

I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories.

I love a kind of shambling outsider protagonist who always feels like they're 'other.'

I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person.

I love when a protagonist and antagonist can find common ground.

What happens with a good score is, somehow the composer manages to cast himself or herself in the role of the protagonist. And then you write from their perspective.

You can put things in prose and understand them one way, and then there's understanding it by knowing how it feels. Things aren't real until you can feel that, until you can empathize with them. That's what protagonists do in books.

I like getting under the skin of the protagonists of every book I read, it makes the whole story so much more personal.

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct.

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

I'd like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.

I've learned more and more to just protect myself and avoid things that'll hurt my feelings.

You constantly felt like you wanted to protect her and that you wanted to save her and that's what made her attractive more so to women than even to men. That's why she's still with us. Marilyn Monroe never offended a woman.

I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.

When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, 'Why is there a huge camera in my face?' But, when you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

I would never ever dare to objectify anyone who has fed me, protected me or loved me.

I loved and protected my own children like a fierce mama bear, but one of them died anyway. It was a dark day when I realized that part of my responsibility in Casey's death was that I did not love all the children of the world in that same real, not abstract, way.

No woman should live in fear, and every girl should feel protected.

I just hope that we get to a day where we all feel like we feel protected and served by our police force.

I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.

In every decision we make and in every policy we develop, we are committed to protecting those who cannot protect themselves... the very young and the very old.

It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.