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" Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects. "
Want
Uncomfortable
Talking
" But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities. "
Women
Think
Heart
" But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about. "
Political
Gender
End
" Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before. "
Even
Before
Life
" During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive. "
Positive
Judge
Education
" For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977. "
Work
Oklahoma
State
" I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women. "
Think
Men
I Am
" I became the messenger who had to be killed. "
Who
Became
Messenger
" I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that. "
Conscience
Did
Fail
" If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender. "
Way
Gender
Race
" I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant. "
Information
Only
Personal
" I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer. "
Me
Lawyer
Clean
" I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself. "
Message
Blame
Content
" I see myself as an educator. "
Myself
Educator
I See
" I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions. "
Me
Regret
Saying
" It would have been more comfortable to remain silent. "
Would
Been
Comfortable
" I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career. "
Affect
Career
Future
" One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now. "
Legal
Think
I Am
" Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting. "
My Life
World
Experience
" Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself. "
Myself
Make A Difference
People
" The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination. "
Discrimination
History
Race
" The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other. "
Society
Us
Way
" We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice. "
History
Justice
Race
" What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court. "
Listening
Supreme Court
Understand
" What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it. "
Need
Understanding
People
" When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything. "
Myself
Change
Beyond
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