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

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" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" I just don't believe that 'no' is always a final answer - unless we're talking about consent. "

" I've done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don't wait for people to come to us and say, 'Help us organize something.' We go out into the community, and we bring the skills to a group of people to organize themselves. "

" 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. "

" There's a power in empathy. "

" The personal is political for so many. "

" We have to trust the voices of the community to be in leadership and know what we need for our communities. "

" 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. "

" Sexual harassment does bring shame. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "