Frances Perkins Quotes

I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.

I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.

I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

People love sympathy, people love the underdog. For me, sympathy is not part of my drag aesthetic.

I've always taken pride in relating to the underdog or little guy or gal.

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.

I think we have a tendency to support the underdogs.

Pity is woman's sweetest charm.

I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.

There was something in her eyes that drew me in. I wanted to make the sadness she tried to hide go away." -Cage York

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

I carried Rudy softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder at comforting. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.

Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.

Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

People call Kong "a monster." He's not. There's nothing evil about Kong. He's just another creature who has opened up a little bit of his heart to Ann and it proves to be his undoing.

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

You had to endure something yourself before it touched you.

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.