Quotes About Empathy

I feel like dads should come more into their feminine side.

I am a mother now, and I'm a mother to a son, and I want him to go into the world a feminist. I want him to go into the world with compassion for humanity.

I only ever want to be a part of something that feels good to me, because I'm such a feminist and a believer in the power of women and the stories we have to tell.

If you're on the fence about speaking your truth or sharing your world with a greater audience, don't be. We need each other badly.

When you reach across the aisle and open your heart and mind, you might just find that you have more in common than you think with the guy on the other side of the fence.

I read 'Fences' when I was about 30 and I thought: This is too sad.' But you get older and you start to go, 'Yeah, yeah, this is like life, why wouldn't I want to do it?'

My dad prepared me for the worst of times while also enabling me to succeed in the best. He taught me to confront the insidiousness of racism head on, no matter what the ramification, so it will not fester. Defeat it and get past it. That was The Talk. Nothing scared me after that.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Bobby was one of the few people I had ever known who really wanted to do something for me.

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

There are few people I can talk to about the worst parts of what happened during Gamergate.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

I truly enjoy working with kids because they teach me something and it allows me to get in touch with few things that are a bit personal to me.

Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

It can be a fictional character and yet relatable... It always depends on the content of the film and what you are doing.

I can't buy the happiness I see on people's faces when I give them a fifty dollar bill.

I don't want to fight at home. I want to be able to talk; I want to be able to rationally discuss things.

I don't fight people for fun.

I'm not just a fighter; I like to give love as well. I'm a lover, too.

When I see a fighter gets into the ring, I not only see the fighter, but I see his wife and children. I care about what happens to them. I care about what happens to that fighter after he gets out of the ring.

I'm not a fighter, I'm a lover.

I'm a sensitive person. I have a kind heart, you know, but I'm a fighter on the court and a competitor in life, so just to understand that and accept that can sometimes be really difficult.

It's hard to criticise a fighter when you're not in the ring doing what we do.