“According to a recent study, between 2007 and 2016, only 4 percent of directors were female and 80 percent of those got the chance to make only one film. In 2016, another study found, only 27 percent of words spoken in the biggest movies were spoken by women. And people wonder why you didn’t hear ou…”— Salma Hayek, nytimes.com
“I think one of my least favorite types of responses to people speaking up on sexual harassment and sexual assault is are articles like “in wake of weinstein, men wonder if hugging women still ok”, and comments like “this is why men don’t pursue women anymore”, “i don’t wanna work with women cause i…”— @residentgoodgirl, tumblr.com
“If you’re wondering why the actresses coming out against Weinstein are mostly those you haven’t seen since the 90s, he’s the reason you haven’t seen them since the 90s.”— brainstatic, brainstatic.tumblr.com
“We’re in the midst of a reckoning. It’s what toxic masculinity’s own medicine tastes like. And people should allow the consequences to unfold, regardless of how it affects those they consider to be friends. The only way to enforce seismic, cultural change in the way men relate to women is to draw a…”— Amber Tamblyn, nytimes.com
“Secret settlements perpetuate the problem. They allow rich men to continue to be sexual predators.”— Jackie Speier, newyorker.com
“What I want to talk about at this point is not what Harvey did. It’s more about the system that protected him and that enabled him, because that’s the only thing that we can change. Money and power enabled, and the legal system has enabled. Ultimately, the reason Harvey Weinstein followed the route…”— Zelda Perkins, newyorker.com
“Dunham’s discrediting of Perrineau is an example of how women of color who have made accusations of sexual assault are often contradicted and never believed (Lupita Nyong’o for example, was the only one of 79 actress that Harvey Weinstein contradicted when she came forward with her story of sexual m…”— Paula Rogo, essence.com
“I think it’s pretty aggressive to go in the bathroom with someone you don’t know and close the door.”— Katharine Towne, latimes.com
“It feels as if I keep going up against the same bully at school who just won't quit.”— Olivia Munn, latimes.com
“It feels like something has shifted. It’s too bad that it’s probably because so many of the women that were assaulted by Harvey Weinstein are famous and white and everybody knows them. This has been going on a long time to black women and other women of color and it doesn’t get out quite the same.”— Jane Fonda, huffingtonpost.com
“Weinsteins victims are white and famous and that's why we care... The same attention has never been paid to women in other industries when they’ve come forward—women who certainly have more to lose than a movie star—and certainly has never been paid to victims who are women of color.”— Kevin Fallon, thedailybeast.com
“We are pure, we are strong, we are brave and we will fight. Pussies grab back. Women grab back. We speak, we yell, we march, we are here, we will not go away.”— Rose McGowan, abc.net.au
“Monsters have been after me for years and years trying to do everything possible to eradicate me from this Earth and I will not go.”— Rose McGowan, abcnews.go.com
“The most important thing that it did was to shift the conversation away from the predator and to the victim.”— Alyssa Milano, rollingstone.com
“I wish I had known that there were women in the business I could have talked to. I wish I had known that there were ears to hear me. That justice could be served. There is clearly power in numbers.”— Lupita Nyong'o, msn.com
“I wish women didn’t have to rip our pasts open and show you everything and let you ogle our pain for you to believe us.”— Lindy West, latimes.com
“Women are shamed, told they are uptight, nasty, bitter, can’t take a joke, are too sensitive. And the men? Well, if they’re lucky, they might get elected President.”— Molly Ringwald, newyorker.com
“The only thing that shocked most people in the film industry about the Harvey Weinstein story was that suddenly, for some reason, people seemed to care.”— Sarah Polley, nytimes.com
“Please go easy on Lindsay Lohan. Being a child actor turned sex symbol twists the brain in ways you can’t comprehend.”— Rose McGowan, newyorker.com