"You Are Not Alone"--Rhimes

Here is a great section from a speech by Shonda Rhimes given to the Human Rights Campaign on 14 March 2015.

     I don’t know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. 

      The need to hear the words: You are not alone.

       The fundamental human need for one human being to hear another human being say to them:  "You are not alone.  You are seen.  I am with you.  You are not alone."



As found in Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance it Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person (New York, Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2015) p. 234.