Quotes About Empathy

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.

Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.

And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.

And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

In my experience all women deserve someone better.

I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.

I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .

Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive.

If you don't love your fellow man, women, person, then you don't have anything. If you don't treat your neighbor as you would want to be treated that to me is the fundamental message.

Women are not to be hit. They're to be hugged and caressed.

For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]

It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.

There are men who talk of women and others who talk to them. I don't talk of them, I prefer talking to them

I'm inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two women discussing their struggle with their weight at the gym.

Filmmaking is challenging for men and women. In both cases, it is incredibly difficult. And gender is neither a guarantee of greater sensitivity, capacity for empathy or aperture.