“If wealthy, highly visible women in news and entertainment are sexually harassed, assaulted and raped -- what do we think is happening to women in retail, food service and domestic work?”— Charlene Carruthers, twitter.com
“It’s really frustrating to watch women decry sexual violence and harassment unless their friend has been accused. Then, suddenly there’s more to the story.”— Roxane Gay, twitter.com
“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
“There is no abusive, misogynist, sociopathic "genius" out there that CAN'T be replaced by an equally creative person who is not a living trash fire. Save the hand-wringing over exposed monsters. The potential talent pool in nearly every industry is vast. And with fewer jackasses chasing, harassing a…”— C. Spike Trotman, twitter.com
“"Miming" groping is utterly gross and reprehensible and, yes, would (rightly, in my view) get you fired from many jobs. But the difference between miming groping and actually physically groping a women's breasts (which should put you in jail) is nonetheless quite vast.”— Christopher Orr, 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
“The structure of our society and legal system is so stacked against victims of sexual assault that believing the victims is a basic pillar of feminism: If we live in a world where the standard response to sexual assault is to find a way to demonstrate that the victim was somehow asking for it, the b…”— Constance Grady, vox.com
“Lena Dunham be like: women coming forward about sexual assault are so important but only if the assaulter is not someone i know personally.”— Luisa Haynes, twitter.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
“Seeing some fellow men saying weird shit like ‘no one’s safe from this,’ but, um like my dude people who didn’t assault or harass anyone are safe.”— Heidi N Moore, twitter.com
“When I took the trash out at night, I sometimes felt his eyes, tried to pretend he wasn’t the thing he claimed to be protecting me from.”— Raven Leilani , narrativemagazine.com
“Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Women don’t get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women do not get raped because they weren’t careful enough. Women get raped because someo…”— Jessica Valenti, amazon.com
“The modesty doctrine isn’t about clothes, it’s about bodies. It’s a method for punishing women who do not conform to an idealized, asexual, inoffensive body type...When I was rebuked for my clothing as a teenager, it was often identical to the clothing all the other girls were wearing. The only diff…”— Suzanne Calulu, patheos.com
“Abusers want you to feel small, to make you insecure, to make you feel like you are indebted to them, or that your actions are to blame.”— Ellen Page, facebook.com
“It's this idea of protecting the same status quo that's always protected Harvey Weinstein and has protected Donald Trump, and has allowed white men to maintain this death grip on power and influence and keep the rest of us subordinated.”— Lindy West, npr.org
“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
“If you steal money, you probably get arrested and convicted, because everybody says stealing is wrong. But if you do something that is very sexist or racist, because there still is a critical mass of bias in this country, it takes more cumulative instances for it to be recognized.”— Gloria Steinem, thedailybeast.com
“May Anthony Rapp's voice be the one which is amplified here. Victim's voices are the ones that deserve to be heard.”— Zachary Quinto, twitter.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