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" I want survivors to know that healing is possible. "

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" So many people who deal with sexual harassment don't have the means to file lawsuits or to get legal representation or legal advice. "

" Sexual harassment does bring shame. "

" We talk about sexual harassment in the workplace, but there's sexual harassment in schools, right? There's sexual harassment on the street. So there's a larger conversation to be had. And I think it will be a disservice to people if we couch this conversation in about what happens in Hollywood or what happens in even political offices. "

" 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. "

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

" These movements aren't about anger. We're not angrily saying 'Black Lives Matter.' We're declaring it. It's a declaration. We want to be seen as robust, full human beings that have anger and have joy. We want to be able to just freely have that joy. Like everybody else does. "

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

" Anita Hill thanklessly put herself and her career as a law professor on the line more than 25 years ago to publicly name Clarence Thomas for sexually harassing her at work. "

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

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

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

" Even when black folks make me angry, I know that the foundation is that I love us. I want us to win, and I want us to have all the things that we deserve in the world. And that's driven by love. "

" I want the women I work with to find the entry point to where their healing is. "

" If I found a healing tree in my backyard, and it grew some sort of fruit that was a healing balm for people to repair what was damaged, I'm not going to just harvest all of those fruits and say, 'You cant have this.' If I have a cure for people, I'm going to share it. "

" I don't think that every single case of sexual harassment has to result in someone being fired; the consequences should vary. But we need a shift in culture so that every single instance of sexual harassment is investigated and dealt with. That's just basic common sense. "

" 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. "

" At the start of my career - not just Me Too, which is not the totality of my career - I wish I would have known that you don't have to sacrifice everything for a cause. And that self-care and self-preservation is also a tool that is necessary to do the work. "

" Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play. "

" I've never had a person come to me and say, 'I want to take down this person.' They come and say, 'I need help. This thing is killing me. It's weighing me down. It's sitting in the pit of my stomach.' "

" We have to come together and speak honestly about what the barriers are within our community - and then tear them down. It's really that simple. "

" Smoking is definitely not cool anymore, and the folks who have worked against that have done a great job. "

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

" You cannot put a song - you cannot put a person's talent over somebody's humanity. That's just insane. "

" 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. "

" Part of the job is to find out what they need. #MeToo is about helping people find those resources. "

" There's a power in empathy. "

" People are trying to find an outlet to tell their truth. "

" 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. "

" 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. "