People Are Comparing Emma Watson’s Divisive Comments About J.K. Rowling With Daniel Radcliffe’s

“I will never believe that one negates the other and that my experience of that person, I don’t get to keep and cherish,” she went on. “I just don’t think these things are either-or.”

“I think it’s my deepest wish that I hope people who don’t agree with my opinion will love me, and I hope I can keep loving people who I don’t necessarily share the same opinion with,” she continued. “I guess where I’ve landed is it’s not so much what we say or what we believe, but very often how we say it that’s really important.”

“I just see this world right now where we seem to be giving permission for this throwing out of people, or that people are disposable. I will always think that’s wrong,” Emma explained. “I believe that no one is disposable, and everyone, as far as possible, whatever the conversation is, should and can be treated with, at the very least, dignity and respect.”

“As a young woman, for her to have written that character and created that world, given me an opportunity which, to be honest, barely exists in the history of English literature — there’s just no world in which I could ever cancel her out or cancel that out,” the star concluded. “I just don’t know what else to do other than hold these two seemingly incompatible things together at the same time… My job feels like it’s to hold all of it.”