“Dear men: You need to go beyond "supporting women" and "being an ally." You need to champion women. Hire women. Promote women. If you're sitting in an office that's 80 percent male at the upper levels, you are not championing women enough. I'm sick of hiring nice guys say 'I don't do the hiring.' If…”— Nell Scovell, twitter.comTagged: Gender Equality, fight for gender equality, destroy patriarchy, equality at work
“Read more than you write.”— Clint Smith, twitter.comTagged: Reading, Writing, Listen, educate yourself, be educated
“'Work for change, not cookies,' should be everyone's life philosophy. People fixated on praise, rather than the hard, painful work of meeting a goal, make a lot of fuss but get very little done.”— Heidi N Moore, twitter.comTagged: reaching goals, reaching dreams, Making A Difference, Live for yourself, Life Is A Journey
“This is what's awful: thinking about just how much talent, how much art, has been lost because women are forced to exit due to powerful men's shitty behavior.”— Soraya Nadia McDonald, twitter.comTagged: Sexual Harassment, destroy patriarchy, Societal Issues, human rights issues, fight for gender equality
“Digital media start ups are imploding. Alt weeklies are shuttering Glossy mags facing huge cutbacks. Find the journalism you care about and SUPPORT it.”— Clara Jeffery, twitter.comTagged: Journalism, journalism crisis, Media
“What the hell’s wrong w/all these men? What happened to romance, the art of seduction? Sexual harassment is a pathetic power play, plain wrong and a lazy man’s answer to getting a girl. Real men know how to attract a woman, NOT attack a woman.”— Ana Navarro, twitter.comTagged: Sexual Harassment, Human rights issue
“Part of the problem is people thinking that sexual harassment is about romance or seduction to begin with. It's about power, intimidation, and the belief that women don't belong in "male" spaces. It's also about punishing women for exercising sexual autonomy and turning down men, which is made extre…”— Andi Zeisler, twitter.comTagged: Sexual Harassment, Societal Issues, fight for gender equality
“Sexual harassment is not an inevitability. The narrative that men can't help themselves is insulting to men. Prove it wrong.”— Lauren Duca, twitter.comTagged: Sexual Harassment, destroy patriarchy, male culture, Gender Equality
“We need an accounting of the economic toll of sexual harassment and workplace abuse on women. Having to turn down new opportunites instead of working with a harasser. Losses in productivity. Getting fired for reporting toxic behavior. Choosing to quit altogether.”— Karen Attiah, twitter.comTagged: Sexual Harassment, dealing with sexual harassment, human rights issues, fight for gender equality
“One of the toughest parts of this fall has been realizing that so many male colleagues assumed our careers didn't take off like theirs because we were less talented.”— Amy Sullivan, twitter.comTagged: Gender Equality, feminism, male culture, fight for gender equality
“teach your boys that they should be kind to other people and that hurting other people is bad. they need to hear it from you explicitly. don't just teach with words. SHOW your boys (yes, boys in particular) that you respect them helping more than you respect them dominating.”— Saladin Ahmed, twitter.comTagged: teaching boys, teaching right values to boys, Gender Equality, gender empowerment
“Any weapon we develop to kill ‘those people’ will always eventually be used to kill ‘our people.’ We need to think carefully not about whether these things should be legal but whether they should exist in the first place”— Saladin Ahmed, twitter.comTagged: weapons, Battles, development of weapons, creating weapons, world issues
“A lot of us look like we are thriving but are just barely making it. Know that you are not alone in living with this.”— Saladin Ahmed, twitter.comTagged: world mental health day, Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, empowering generations, Inspirational
“Smart writers understand that writers aren’t any smarter than anyone else.”— Saladin Ahmed, twitter.comTagged: Writers, smart writers, Writer's Truth
“there are a lot of bad stories out there doing real harm in the world it’s up to us to tell better ones”— Saladin Ahmed, twitter.comTagged: Stories, Storytelling, Writing, Writer's Truth, Writers
“Seeing some fellow men saying weird shit like ‘no one’s safe from this,’ but, um like my dude people who didn’t assault or harass anyone are safe.”— Heidi N Moore, twitter.comTagged: Harassment, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault, sexual harassers, human rights issues
“Not everyone is going to like you and that’s okay. Just remember that they’re probably stupid.”— Jewel Staite, twitter.comTagged: you can't please everyone, Live for yourself, Self Confidence, Life, Inspirational
“Dreamers are leaders, teachers, innovators, and scientists. We must do what we can to give them a path to citizenship.”— Kirsten Gillibrand, twitter.comTagged: Dreamers, citizenship for dreamers, keep on dreaming, support dreamers
“We should be rewarding work in this country, not doling out lavish tax cuts to big businesses, CEOs, and bankers.”— Kirsten Gillibrand, twitter.comTagged: laborers, workers, Companies, Corporations, Business
“At your pace, on your terms. Your happiness and safety are paramount. Sending endless love your way.”— Lin-Manuel Miranda, twitter.comTagged: Coming Out Day, Coming out, gender empowerment, Self & Identity, Self Acceptance