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Sexual Harrassment Quotes

Quotes tagged as "sexual-harrassment" Showing 1-13 of 13
Rebecca Solnit
“Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.”
Rebecca Solnit

عمر طاهر
“أول متحرش في العالم هو الشخص الذي إكتشف أن البقرة يمكن حلبها”
عمر طاهر, أقوال برما

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Alice in Charge

“When someone violates you sexually, it does not simply haunt and aggrieve you; it alters the very shape of your soul.”
Cicely Tyson, Just as I Am

William L. Lavell
“Janice rolled her eyes. First, the doctor had ogled her, and now Karr was leering at her and licking his lips lasciviously.
"Oh this is great. I'm being mentally undressed by a space pirate.”
William L. Lavell

Karin Slaughter
“Claire knew full well from the videos that there were things a man could do to a woman that didn't kill her, but made her wish she was dead.”
Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

Soraya Chemaly
“... the reality and threat of male-perpetrated sexual violence is normalized in the lives of girls and women as a restrictive force.”
Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“Anybody should punch anybody in the face with beauty, at any time, without getting punched back by a penis.”
Rebecca Dinerstein Knight

Jennifer Weiner
“She would look this other Diana in the eyes and then she'd decide what she would do, how she could confront Hal without hurting some poor, blameless woman, in a world where being born female meant spending years of your life at risk, and the rest of it invisible, existing as prey or barely existing at all.”
Jennifer Weiner, That Summer

Mary Monroe
“I'm taking a big risk by coming clean, but the pressure of hiding my true self done really took a toll on me and I can't take too much more.”
Mary Monroe

Chandler Baker
“Oh, you do, do you? So my daughter was sexually harassed and she came to you - the adult in charge - and your big life skill advice was to ignore it?" ~Sloane Glover

"Now, let's not overreact," says Principal Clark.

Mr. Tully scratched behind his ear. "'Sexually harassed' is a strong terminology. I don't think it's that serious.”
Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

Ali Wong
“I don't care how funny or beloved someone is. Take his ass down if he fucks with you.”
Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

“My romantic rejections of industry veterans have severely hurt my career—saying no to the wrong man has led to exclusion from professional events, lost contract gigs, my name's removal from my own work, and worse.”
Zoe Quinn, Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate