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

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" I have been working with young people for more than 25 years. "

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

" 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.' "

" Social media is not a safe space. "

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

" 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. "

" There's a power in empathy. "

" 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. "

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

" There are a series of emotions that most survivors go through after disclosing. It starts with feeling great, like the weight on your shoulders has been lifted, and then you're alone with your thoughts, like, 'Why did I do that?' And then, what about the person who gets backlash? "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Sexual harassment does bring shame. "

" 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. "

" 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 need hope and inspiration desperately. But hope and inspiration are only sustained by work. "

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

" We have to have something that reaches the masses. That's what I've always known Me Too could do. "

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

" 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.' "

" I don't want to get into splitting hairs. Trauma is trauma. I'm not in a position to quantify or qualify people's trauma. "

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

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

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

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

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