Quotes About Empathy

I'm convinced women actually think they can read minds. Like when a woman goes, "I can tell you don't want to hang out with me today." And you're like, "What are you talking about? I actually do!"

You don't make movies about "men" and "women." You make movies about this guy and this woman and if you get them right, you'll automatically connect with a lot of people.

The man who can best gets along with women, is the man who can get along without them.

Men and women are from different zip codes. All guys understand - well this is just my opinion - you guys don't understand with words. You guys understand with actions.

I can't stand that - those women in 'Waiting to Exhale' now. I can't stand them. But that's because I'm 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.

The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.

The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

I know that my audience is largely women, so what I try to do a lot of times is address their issues.

What I've learned is you treat women right.

Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

Men don't hear women.

Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.

Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.

I'm a primate, you know? I need to be pro-social, like all of us; I need to be pro-social and affiliative. I need to sit at the campfire with other women.

I pay attention as much as I can. I try to surround myself with other women with magical powers and a lot falls under the heading "magical powers."

Women have a very good sense for seeing instantly what constitutes a good man. Not physically. The physical strength is only a small side of it.

I think women can cope a lot better than men.

I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women.

I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.

There's too much coldness in the world, " I told her. "If people would only talk things out together it would help.

There are lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls.