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Women started speaking out more and more about harassment and assault in the wake of the initial “silence breakers” (as they came to be called), and many expected that finally holding powerful people accountable for their alleged misdeeds would usher in unprecedented social change. A year later, however, many of the men exposed by #MeToo are quietly planning comebacks, and the Senate is poised to confirm a man with multiple sexual-assault allegations to the Supreme Court.

— Lisa Ryan, Our Year of Reckoning: An Exhaustive Timeline

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If there's more, we will deal with them when they come.

— Benjamin Brafman, Harvey Weinstein pleads "not guilty" to sexual assault charges involving a third woman

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Fashion makes hypocrites of us all at one point or another.

— Stella Bugbee, Who Is Anna Wintour Asking Us to Forgive in Her Editor’s Letter?

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I have moments of rage. I have moments of confusion. I have moments of disbelief!

— Georgina Chapman, Georgina Chapman on Life After Leaving Her Husband Harvey Weinstein

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I stopped at Harvey Weinstein's party for a little bit, got my parents drunk, and then I left and went home.

— Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence: Oscar-Frontrunner

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There is something unsettling about how little these celebrities have to lose by taking these stances.

— Jenna Wortham, The Empty Gesture of Red Carpet Protest

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How does one judge a young woman who listens to a world that screams money, power and fame will make her better?

— Jasmine Lobe, Harvey Weinstein Sexually Harassed Me, James Toback Threatened to Slit My Throat

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It’s the micro that makes the macro. I have been a victim of each component of the sexual assault spectrum of which you speak. They all hurt. And they are all connected to a patriarchy intertwined with normalized, accepted--even welcomed-- misogyny.

We are not outraged because someone grabbed our asses in a picture. We are outraged because we were made to feel this was normal. We are outraged because we have been gaslighted. We are outraged because we were silenced for so long.

— Alyssa Milano, via twitter.com

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For the first and last time in my career, I had a nervous breakdown: My body began to shake uncontrollably, my breath was short and I began to cry and cry, unable to stop, as if I were throwing up tears.

It was not because I would be naked with another woman. It was because I would be naked with her for Harvey Weinstein. But I could not tell anyone then.

— Salma Hayek, Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too

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Once we started filming, the sexual harassment stopped but the rage escalated. We paid the price for standing up to him nearly every day of shooting.

— Salma Hayek, Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too

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Little did I know it would become my turn to say no.

No to opening the door to him at all hours of the night, hotel after hotel, location after location, where he would show up unexpectedly, including one location where I was doing a movie he wasn’t even involved with.

No to me taking a shower with him.

No to letting him watch me take a shower.

No to letting him give me a massage.

No to letting a naked friend of his give me a massage.

No to letting him give me oral sex.

No to my getting naked with another woman.

No, no, no, no, no …

And with every refusal came Harvey’s Machiavellian rage. I don’t think he hated anything more than the word “no.”

— Salma Hayek, Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too

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In his eyes, I was not an artist. I wasn’t even a person. I was a thing: not a nobody, but a body.

— Salma Hayek, Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too

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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 our voices sooner. I think the statistics are self-explanatory — our voices are not welcome.

— Salma Hayek, Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too

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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 don’t want a lawsuit”, or “i don’t even look at women anymore cause everything is sexual harassment”.

This is a particular brand of rape culture, men acting as if women are overreacting, as if men don’t have the basic social skills to know the difference between wanted and unwanted advances, as if women simply setting boundaries is “cramping their style” and “emasculating” them, as if the rules of respecting women are super confusing, so confusing that they’re supposedly forcing men not to interact with us altogether.

— @residentgoodgirl, via www.tumblr.com

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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, via brainstatic.tumblr.com

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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 line deep in the sand and say: This is what we will no longer tolerate. You’re either with our bodies or against our bodies. The punishment for harassment is you disappear. The punishment for rape is you disappear. The punishment for masturbation in front of us is you disappear. The punishment for coercion is you disappear.

This new rule upsets many people, men and women. But what they don’t seem to understand is, no one is saying a disappearance from the public eye has to be forever. (Well, Harvey Weinstein is forever.) I’m not talking about banishment. I’m talking about ceding the floor. The power of celebrity and cultural approval must disappear for the time being so that all women see and believe that consequences do exist.

— Amber Tamblyn, Opinion | Amber Tamblyn: I’m Not Ready for the Redemption of Men

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Secret settlements perpetuate the problem. They allow rich men to continue to be sexual predators.

— Jackie Speier, Harvey Weinstein’s Secret Settlements

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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 he did is because he was allowed to, and that’s our fault. As a culture, that’s our fault.

— Zelda Perkins, Harvey Weinstein’s Secret Settlements

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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 misconduct).

— Paula Rogo, Lena Dunham's Response To Actress Aurora Perrineau's Rape Claim Is A Perfect Example Of White Feminism At Play

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I think it’s pretty aggressive to go in the bathroom with someone you don’t know and close the door.

— Katharine Towne, Six women accuse filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct

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It feels as if I keep going up against the same bully at school who just won't quit.

— Olivia Munn, Six women accuse filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct

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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, Jane Fonda: People Are Listening Now Because Weinstein Victims Are 'Famous And White'

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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, FINALLY Jane Fonda Gets It: Weinstein’s Victims Are White and Famous, and That’s Why We Care

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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, 'It's time to rise': Rose McGowan makes first public remarks since accusing Weinstein of rape

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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, Rose McGowan tears up amid strong support at Women's Convention

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The most important thing that it did was to shift the conversation away from the predator and to the victim.

— Alyssa Milano, Alyssa Milano Wants Her 'Me Too' Campaign to Elevate Weinstein Discussion

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I speak up to contribute to the end of the conspiracy of silence.

— Lupita Nyong'o, Lupita Nyong’o: What Harvey Weinstein Did to Me

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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, Lupita Nyong’o: What Harvey Weinstein Did to Me

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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, Survivors of sexual violence don't owe anyone our stories. Here's why I'm telling mine. #MeToo

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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, All the Other Harvey Weinsteins

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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, Opinion | Sarah Polley: The Men You Meet Making Movies

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Please go easy on Lindsay Lohan. Being a child actor turned sex symbol twists the brain in ways you can’t comprehend.

— Rose McGowan, Lindsay Lohan, Harvey Weinstein, and the Draw of the Despot

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You also don't want it to lead to a witch hunt atmosphere, a Salem atmosphere, where every guy in an office who winks at a woman is suddenly having to call a lawyer to defend himself. That's not right either.

— Woody Allen, Harvey Weinstein: Woody Allen 'sad' for producer over sexual assault allegations

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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, via Instagram.com

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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, Has anyone fallen faster than Harvey Weinstein?

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Men in Hollywood need to change ASAP. Hollywood’s power is dying because society has changed and grown, and yet Hollywood male behavior has not. It is so not a good look.

— Rose McGowan, Rose McGowan Calls for Weinstein Co. Board to Resign

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when Judy Garland told people about how studio heads had been abusing her since she was a child, everybody called her crazy. they still do.

— The Mountain Goats, via Twitter.com

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Just FYI, if you’re ever working in the movie business, and someone says ‘welcome to Hollywood’ to you, that person is truly the worst.

— Liz Meriwether, I’m a Coward

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I had never imagined myself as the kind of woman who stayed quiet in these situations.

— Liz Meriwether, I’m a Coward

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My heart breaks for all the women who have suffered tremendous pain because of these unforgivable actions. I have chosen to leave my husband. Caring for my young children is my first priority and I ask the media for privacy at this time.

— Georgina Chapman, Harvey Weinstein’s Wife Georgina Chapman Divorcing Him

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You know what? It’s good that I’m the fucking sheriff of this fucking lawless piece-of-shit town.

— Harvey Weinstein, 11 Notorious Harvey Weinstein Stories, Starting With That Time He Ate M&Ms Off the Floor

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