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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Donald Trump has proven to be the kind of person who you can't reason with and who you can't have a logical conversation with - and who I can't imagine having a heart-to-heart conversation thinking that I would change something specifically about this person. "

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

" Sexual harassment does bring shame. "

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

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

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

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

" When one person says, 'Yeah, me, too,' it gives permission for others to open up. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The personal is political for so many. "

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

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

" The young girls of color that first encountered the 'me too' movement in community centers and classrooms and church basements were there not only because they needed a safe space, but because they needed their own space. "

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

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

" Nobody can take you out of something, especially if you're the one who started it. "