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" An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like. "

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" As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing. "

" We use a term called 'empowerment through empathy.' And 'Me Too' is so powerful, because somebody had said it to me - right? - and it changed the trajectory of my healing process once I heard that. "

" I've done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don't wait for people to come to us and say, 'Help us organize something.' We go out into the community, and we bring the skills to a group of people to organize themselves. "

" I'm interested in talking to people and dealing with people who are set and ready for change and action. Who get it. And who are looking for solutions. "

" I started doing organizing work as a teenager. I was part of an organization called the 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement at 14. "

" I've done work in every area of social justice you can think of, but I've been highly focused on young people and then specifically black and brown girls. "

" Men need to help reshape the conversation around consent. "

" The personal is political for so many. "

" I'm grounded in joy; I'm not grounded in the trauma anymore. "

" We all have the right to an opinion, sure, but can we say how someone else should feel? "

" Patriarchy doesn't just make men out to be ogres. Women buy into the patriarchy as well, and women make those comments as well, like, 'Boys will be boys.' Women have to undo that stuff, too. "

" If we keep on 'making statements' and not really doing the work, we are going to be in trouble. "

" Social media is not a safe space. "

" In many regards, Me Too is about survivors talking to survivors. "

" If you give young people enough information, they'll figure out what to do with it. They just need a little guidance. "

" For every Harvey Weinstein, there's three or four thousand other pastors, coaches, teachers, uncles, cousins, and stepfathers who are committing the same crimes. We have to keep that in focus and we have to keep talking about it. "

" Foundations have to think outside the box and maybe expand past the usual suspects that get all of the funding and start thinking about how to reach into communities and support community healing on a more local level. "

" I wish men would stop telling me how they are not 'bad guys,' how they're 'an exception to the norm.' "

" I'm all about cultivating joy in your life. "

" I just don't believe that 'no' is always a final answer - unless we're talking about consent. "

" We should collectively be talking to children - as young as kindergarten - about what consent looks like. "

" The work is more than just about the amplification of survivors and quantifying their numbers. The work is really about survivors talking to each other and saying, 'I see you. I support you. I get it.' "

" I don't work for Hollywood. "

" I think it is selfish for me to try to frame Me Too as something that I own. It is bigger than me and bigger than Alyssa Milano. Neither one of us should be centered in this work. This is about survivors. "

" 'Me too' became a term that was both succinct and powerful, and it was a way to ring up immediate empathy between survivors. "

" The work of #MeToo is about healing. It's about healing as individuals and healing as communities. "

" People ask me what men can do, and I tell them, even if you're not a perpetrator, you should believe women - or queer folks - when they say that they have been violated. "

" I think that Me Too is for everybody. I think it's important that people feel validated. "

" What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy. "

" I founded the Me Too Movement because there was a void in the community that I was in. There were gaps in services. There was dearth in resources, and I saw young people - I saw black and brown girls - who are hurting and who needed something that just wasn't there. "