Evelyne Brochu Quotes

I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the kind of people they don't encounter in their daily lives very frequently.

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

Men and women are both humans, so, for me, that makes my characters and the work that I do human stories.

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

I really care about people, and I would need someone to also genuinely value other human beings and want to be connected with people in the world and to know about other cultures. That might not be a high standard for someone else, but for me, it's really important to try and stick to that.

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

Everywhere, people are beginning to question masculine notions of control, aggression and black-and-white thinking - and instead are favoring more empathetic, nurturing and collaborative approaches.

If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us.

I want people to be sensitive about how women feel and think.

It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.

Parents: instead of teaching our children to be brave boys or pretty girls, can we maybe just teach them how to be good humans?

I've never really identified with the way a typical alpha male views women. It's always an awkward forum for me to hang out with another guy and talk about girls, because I can't really find a way to fit in.

If you list the qualities that we consider feminine, they are patience, understanding, empathy, supportiveness, a desire to nurture. Our culture tells us those are feminine traits, but they're really just human.

I can love people of every gender identity and expression. It is the soul that captivates me.

Whether I am writing about a man or woman makes no difference in terms of difficulty.

I have learnt that women are superior beings. They have a higher threshold of pain and are more understanding and accepting than men. Also, if you listen to them, you'll understand them better.

I don't think I necessarily try to help women; I just try to help people.

Leadership is so defined by men, and we need to revise that - we need to be able to say that the people we honor are not the conquerors but the peacemakers.

I am a mother now, and I'm a mother to a son, and I want him to go into the world a feminist. I want him to go into the world with compassion for humanity.

There's no right way to be a woman; there's only a right way to be a human, which is to have respect for others.

Why is it so hard for men to identify with women as fellow travelers on this good Earth?

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?

Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.