Katherine Ellison quotes

“Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and satisfy them.”
-- Katherine Ellison

Source : Katherine Ellison (2006). “The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter”, p.128, Basic Books

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“Empathy is the key to great stories.”

“Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors.”

“Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn ***** when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.”

“I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.”

“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”

Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U

“I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.”

“I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.”

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“When you're not finding the fairway, it's hard to be consistent. [Right now] I'm comfortable and I'm not so comfortable, if that makes sense.”

“Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.”

“The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.”