“During his tour for THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER, Junot Díaz did a Q&A at the grad program I'd just graduated from. When I made the mistake of asking him a question about his protagonist's unhealthy, pathological relationship with women, he went off for me for twenty minutes.”— Carmen Maria Machado, twitter.com
“But even if he is a lefty 'golden boy' rather than a right-wing 'good old boy,' Schneiderman is, after all, a boy. And at some point, people should begin to wonder if placing big bets on male politicians at this particular juncture of history is a mite risky, all else being equal.”— Ed Kilgore, thecut.com
“As a grad student, I invited Junot Diaz to speak to a workshop on issues of representation in literature. I was an unknown wide-eyed 26 yo, and he used it as an opportunity to corner and forcibly kiss me. I'm far from the only one he's done this 2, I refuse to be silent anymore.”— Zinzi Clemmons, vulture.com
“There’s an appropriate sequence. Accountability, amends, introspection, restitution, then redemption. You don’t get to skip the stages that lead to redemption. But there has to be [a path forward].”— Ashley Judd, thecut.com
“They were like ‘A woman’s probably not gonna jerk off in front of anyone, right?’ And to that I say: Don’t count your chickens.”— Michelle Wolf, youtube.com
“I can say 'I love you' and mean 'I hate you,' and I can say 'I hate you' and mean 'I love you.'”— Isabella Rossellini, vulture.com
“But if you are the janitor on a floor of a hotel, and you can terrorize the maids on that floor, and they do, or you’re the night manager at a McDonald’s in Tulsa, and you can terrorize that girl who works there at night because she needs that $9 an hour, that is much more important, and it’s many,…”— Fran Lebowitz, frieze.com
“The purpose was to uplift one another as they saw a disparity in how women of color were treated when they reported abuse.”— Sandra E. Garcia, nytimes.com
“Mr. Robbins’s arguments struck a particular nerve because similar ones have been used frequently against victims of sexual assault and harassment since long before the #MeToo movement began. Women who report sexual violence are often accused of seeking attention, or criticized for destroying men’s c…”— Maggie Astor, nytimes.com
“This movement is about making sure survivors have the resources to heal AFTER they’ve said #metoo, it’s about galvanizing a global community or survivors and advocates to do the work of interrupting sexual violence. It’s about protecting folks’ human dignity at all cost.”— Tarana Burke, twitter.com
“I was well into my thirties before I stopped considering verbally abusive men more interesting than the nice ones.”— Molly Ringwald, newyorker.com
“It makes sense that women who are invested in the movement — are invested in having greater conversations and greater solutions to things like sexual harassment and sexual assault — would be hyperaware of the potential political and cultural discourses that could interrupt that process.”— Sarah J. Jackson, Anna North, vox.com
“We are a long way from that better world, in part because so many seemingly well-intentioned people buy into the precepts of rape culture. So many people want to believe there are only a few bad men.”— Roxane Gay, nytimes.com
“Chinese feminists found a way around it—they began using #RiceBunny in its place along with the rice bowl and bunny face emoji. When spoken aloud the words for “rice bunny” are pronounced “mi tu,” a homophone that cleverly evades detection.”— Margaret Andersen, wired.com
“Hearing that a 27-year-old woman — yes, even one who makes porn films — would assume that a powerful 60-year-old man was entitled to sex with her because she flirted and exercised poor judgment? That’s almost as depressing as the fact that the aforementioned man is now the leader of the free world.”— Kristen Baldwin, ew.com
“To impose rigid sex codes devised for the genteel bourgeois office on the dynamic performing arts will inevitably limit rapport, spontaneity, improvisation and perhaps creativity itself.”— Camille Paglia, hollywoodreporter.com
“Most progressives wouldn’t hesitate to attend a football game, or to praise the enlightened new pope – the one who says he’s sorry, but women still can’t lead his church, or control our reproduction.”— Barbara Kingsolver, theguardian.com
“Patriarchy persists because power does not willingly cede its clout; and also, frankly, because women are widely complicit in the assumption that we’re separate and not quite equal. If we’re woke, we inspect ourselves and others for implicit racial bias, while mostly failing to recognize explicit ge…”— Barbara Kingsolver, theguardian.com