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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm really a worker and about rolling up my sleeves and doing the work. If that lands me a place in history, then I would be among amazing company. "

" 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 want survivors to know that healing is possible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sexual harassment does bring shame. "

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

" There's a power in empathy. "

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

" 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. "

" The personal is political for so many. "

" 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. "

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

" In many regards, Me Too is about survivors talking to survivors. "

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

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Social media is not a safe space. "

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

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

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