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" Everybody has a lane. Everybody has something that they can contribute. "

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" Celebrity doesn't serve me unless it advances the work that I'm doing. "

" There are so many different people doing amazing work across the country that I, in my capacity, definitely want to lift up, because they don't get lifted up that often. "

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

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

" If we don't center the voices of marginalized people, we're doing the wrong work. "

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

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

" I'm driven by the gaps, the things that are missing, the areas where marginalized people exist - and where the least resources are available for them. "

" When you truly empathize with someone, you have to take into account all the things that make that person who they are. "

" I feel the reason people started using 'me too' is there is beauty and power in those words. "

" Get up. Stand up. Speak up. Do something. "

" Social media is not a safe space. "

" The world doesn't realise I have a regular job! "

" I think that women of color use social media to make our voices heard with or without the amplification of white women. I also think that, many times, when white women want our support, they use an umbrella of 'women supporting women' and forget that they didn't lend the same kind of support. "

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

" 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. "

" What does justice look like for a survivor? It'll mean different things to different communities. "

" 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. "

" Sexual harassment does bring shame. "

" I founded the 'me too' movement in 2006 because I wanted to find a way to connect with the black and brown girls in the program I ran. "

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" 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. "

" Social media is so immediate and in your face that I know many people have been helped and many people who have been traumatised by their entire timeline filled with 'me too.' "

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" 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. "

" The personal is political for so many. "

" I have a lot of experience - not just with my 'Me Too' campaign but with survivors disclosing. I know that there is a wave of emotions that happens after that. "