“fellas: please don’t wait to have a daughter, or until a sister or woman you love becomes a victim of sexual abuse or assault - speak up now, speak up often.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“If a woman says a friend of yours has sexually assaulted or harassed her, this is a good way to handle it. Don’t immediately go into defend-my-friend mode. Don’t enable through silence. Take the woman’s side. We gain nothing but shit for speaking up.”— Mona Eltahawy, twitter.com
“good statements for men to practice: 1) I’m sorry 2) I shouldn’t have done that 3) no problem, goodnight 4) dude, don’t say that shit 5) please continue 6) she wasn’t finished 7) how can I help 8) actually, that was her idea”— Kate Leth, twitter.com
“If you're a man who can't be alone with a woman and not grab her or rub up against her, you probably shouldn't be around any people, ever.”— Soledad O'Brien, twitter.com
“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.com
“Sexual harassment is not an inevitability. The narrative that men can't help themselves is insulting to men. Prove it wrong.”— Lauren Duca, twitter.com
“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.com
“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.com
“Call me old-fashioned, but I want a man who will protect me like I'm the reputation of a guy he's never met.”— Kate Willett, twitter.com
“Being LGBTQ+ is a gift from God. Why? Because we are expanding humanity’s vision of what love really is.”— Jordan Bach, twitter.com
“it’s funny how so many men are more concerned about preventing ‘witch hunts’ than actually stopping well-documented abuse by powerful elites”— Gretchen Carlson, twitter.com
“This step forward (at first right against the will of the men who are left behind) will transform the experiences of love, which is now full of error, alter it root and branch, reshape it into a relation between two human beings and no longer between man and woman. And this more human form of love (…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." I appeal to everyone who believes i…”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org
“Those men think I'm purely decorative, and they're fools for not knowing better.”— Zelda Fitzgerald, amazon.ca
“Not to sound like nick jonas or anything but sometimes I see a queer couple walking around holding hands and it just makes me feel so happy.”— Adam J. Kurtz, twitter.com
“Realise that humour transcends all boundaries; that laughter is language that knows no borders.”— Emi Mahmoud, youtube.com
“To address the issues of equality, women need to work hand in hand with men, rather than alienate them and see them as an absolute evil.”— Dickie Ferriols, twitter.com
“I've done things nobody else has done. The 68-story Trump Tower, on Fifth Avenue right next to Tiffany's, was the tallest entirely glass-exteriored building in Manhattan when it opened in 1983. That helped pioneer the modern luxury-building industry. One of the thing I'm most proud of about that bui…”— Donald Trump, amazon.com