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" 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. "

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

" As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing. "

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

" There's a power in empathy. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" You cannot put a song - you cannot put a person's talent over somebody's humanity. That's just insane. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I'm driven by the gaps, the things that are missing, the areas where marginalized people exist - and where the least resources are available for them. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" We use a term called 'empowerment through empathy.' And 'Me Too' is so powerful, because somebody had said it to me - right? - and it changed the trajectory of my healing process once I heard that. "

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

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

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

" Inherently, having privilege isn't bad, but it's how you use it, and you have to use it in service of other people. "

" 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. "

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