“So I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon! And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men, fighting hard to make sure that they become…”— Oprah Winfrey, nytimes.com
“And I’ve interviewed and portrayed people who’ve withstood some of the ugliest things life can throw at you, but the one quality all of them seem to share is an ability to maintain hope for a brighter morning — even during our darkest nights.”— Oprah Winfrey, nytimes.com
“They are domestic workers and farmworkers; they are working in factories and they work in restaurants, and they’re in academia and engineering and medicine and science; they’re part of the world of tech and politics and business; they’re our athletes in the Olympics and they’re our soldiers in the m…”— Oprah Winfrey, nytimes.com
“And for too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men. But their time is up. Their time is up. Their time is up.”— Oprah, nytimes.com
“So I want tonight to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault, because they — like my mother — had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue. They’re the women whose names we’ll never know.”— Oprah, nytimes.com
“What is clear is that too many of us still perform mental gymnastics, of the sort deployed during Woody Allen movies, to justify attending R. Kelly concerts, despite years of reports about him victimizing young girls. For some of us, the basis for this cognitive dissonance was established at a very…”— Shanita Hubbard, nytimes.com
“Gosh it’s so *interesting how men with all these opinions about women’s differentiation between sexual misconduct, assault and rape reveal themselves to be utterly tone deaf and as a result, systemically part of the problem (*profoundly unsurprising).”— Minnie Driver, twitter.com
“You don’t get to be hierarchical with abuse. And you don’t get to tell women that because some guy only showed them their penis that their pain isn't as great as a woman who was raped.”— Minnie Driver, twitter.com
“Sexual harassment is the opposite. It's devoid of empathy and it's about forcing your will upon another person without having any regard for their desire.”— Kate Willett, facebook.com
“Good flirting is fundamentally empathetic. It's about building desire and it's often pretty subtle. It's paying such deep attention to another person's emotions and body language that you create more intimacy with them. It's a two-way, playful, fun exchange that makes everyone feel good.”— Kate Willett, facebook.com
“I love to be flirted with. I don't like being sexually harassed. These two things are not the same, and if you're arguing the point "now men can't flirt anymore," you don't understand what flirting is or you're just pretending not to in order to set up a straw man argument in favor of sexual harassm…”— Kate Willett, facebook.com
“It wasn’t built to be a viral campaign or a hashtag that is here today and forgotten tomorrow. It was a catchphrase to be used from survivor to survivor to let folks know that they were not alone and that a movement for radical healing was happening and possible.”— Tarana Burke, ebony.com