Quotes About Empathy

I'm a pretty feminized geek, you know? I have that point of view, I grew up around a lot of girls, so I'm pretty sensitive to that. But I don't dare say 'I know how women think.

Women's networks are a necessary part of life. A mixture of empathy and brainstorming can move mountains.

Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.

When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind.

I don't care about fashion, I care about women.

Women tend to reinvest their proceeds in one another, in their communities, in their children.

Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.

Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.

I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.

Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.

I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend.

Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details of your own experiences and your own life.

I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who made strong impressions on me. I remember them and they are part of me.

My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!

Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy.

Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.

I really want to help stop violence toward women.

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

Sometimes it's easier for me to do films about, and with, women, because I have more distance, I'm more lucid.

Are you sick and tired of men sniveling and whining about how we women want to smother them? If you can still hear them whining you aren't holding the pillow down hard enough.

I think a lot of men just automatically like to lie, because they feel like their protecting a women's feelings.

Son, heed my instruction, and apply thyself to know women; let thine eyes observe her when she is with another, for what she doeth with him, she will do with thee, also.

Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.