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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" I don't work for Hollywood. "

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

" There are a number of people who are anxious to leave #metoo behind and move on, but I don't think people realize how short of a time we have been discussing this issue compared to how long this has been an issue. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Men are not the enemy, and we have to be clear about that. "

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

" We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers. "

" 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.' "

" Sexual harassment does bring shame. "

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

" I didn't start Me Too as a hashtag, and had I had the opportunity to, I probably wouldn't have done it that way. I think that what has happened subsequently has been beautiful to watch, but what concerns me is what all of these survivors are going to do now. "