Quotes About Empathy

Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what that other man or woman is doing.

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

Women are the real architects of society.

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend.

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight, I'll fight to the very end!

Next to the wound , what women make best is the bandage.

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think -- in a deeper voice.

A man is given the choice between loving women and understanding them.

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures.

Life is so meaningful when you give to others and never want in return.

Helping others without expecting anything in return is what gives life a real meaning.

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

Short judgments make long friends.