“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
“If you consider a woman less pure after you've touched her, maybe you should take a look at your hands.”— Kaija Sabbah, goodreads.com
“Let's stop allowing our young women to be sexual cannon fodder, and let's remember that Harvey is an emblem of a system that is sick, and that we have work to do.”— Kate Beckinsale, instagram.com
“Women need to speak up, and women need to be heard. It's not one industry, and it’s every level of the food chain. It’s just something women learn to write off as the day-to-day of being a woman.”— Blake Lively, latimes.com
“Women have to do an impossible dance of being both ‘feminine’ enough not to be threatening, but ‘masculine’ enough to be taken seriously.”— Jennifer Siebel Newsom, refinery29.com
“Women are only worthy of basic respect in relation to men. Without wives, daughters, sisters and granddaughters, would men be unable to muster some base-level compassion for female human beings?... There seems to be this idea out there that men can only understand sexism, rape or harassment if they…”— Emily Peck, huffingtonpost.com
“You don’t need to be the parent of a daughter or the grandfather of a little girl or the husband to a wife to understand that bragging about ― and committing ― sexual assault is vile.”— Emily Peck, huffingtonpost.com
“Prejudices pit us against one another... One reason women compete so fiercely in the workplace is that it seems as if only a few positions are open to us. That’s not a too-many-women problem, it’s a too-few-slots-because-of-gender-and-racial-bias problem.”— Ashton Applewhite, nytimes.com
“Society’s obsession with the way women look is less about beauty than about obedience to a punishing external standard — and power. When women compete to ‘stay young,’ we collude in our own disempowerment. When we rank other women by age, we reinforce ageism, sexism, lookism and patriarchy. What els…”— Ashton Applewhite, nytimes.com
“One thing we can all agree on, though? Aging is harder for women. We bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth and youth with power — the double-whammy of ageism and sexism. How do we cope? We splurge on anti-aging products. We fudge or lie about our age. We diet, we exercise, we get plump…”— Ashton Applewhite, nytimes.com
“Women fight on. And to the men out there, stand up. We need you as allies.”— Rose McGowan, twitter.com
“Those men think I'm purely decorative, and they're fools for not knowing better.”— Zelda Fitzgerald, amazon.ca
“Want to know if a suitor respects women? Don't ask about yourself. Ask how they feel about sex workers, dancers, exes they've slept with.”— Shakira Sison, twitter.com
“You can dress it up with talk of glamour and bunny ears and fishnets, you can talk about his contribution to gonzo journalism, you can contextualise his drive to free up sex as part of the sexual revolution. But strip it all back and he was a man who bought and sold women to other men.”— Suzanne Moore, theguardian.com
“The fantasy that Hefner sold was not a fantasy of freedom for women, but for men.”— Suzanne Moore, theguardian.com
“He's [Trump] said terrible things about women, terrible things about the military. I don't understand why people are for him.”— Barbara Bush, cnn.com
“Since no one is born a racist and there is no fetal predisposition to sexism, one learns Othering not by lecture or instruction but by example.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“Studies have also shown that gender biases exist within science, and a researcher’s implicit assumptions can inform the methods and language they use to build a study.”— Lila MacLellan, qz.com
“We take for granted how often laymen and even researchers use science—and specifically neuroscience—to ‘verify’ stereotypes about gender: That men are naturally more competitive, for instance, or that women are more in touch with their emotions and better skilled at communicating. Such notions aren’…”— Lila MacLellan, qz.com
“I don't agree with the Google memo; I don't think it's really a free speech issue because he solicited it and directed it specifically to and at the people he worked with; I don't agree that there are sex differences in academic or professional interests. But repeated claims that no credible researc…”— Freddie DeBoer, facebook.com