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But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about. -- Anita Hill
Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective. -- Kathie Lee Gifford
Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed? -- Victoria Wood
Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women. -- Phyllis Schlafly
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. -- Denis Diderot
Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this. -- Katherine Jenkins
Harassment is the background radiation of my life. It is a factor in every decision I make. Any time I tweet something or make a post, I'm always thinking about it. -- Anita Sarkeesian
Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media. -- Judith Butler
I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating. -- Jay Mohr
I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it. -- Tom Cole
Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate. -- Michael Crichton
Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy. -- Mo Ibrahim
The days of foot-in-the-door harassment and snatched photos are gone. -- Rebecca
Ontological questions are generally beside the point, hardly more than a form of harassment. -- Noam Chomsky
Non-criminal sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases. -- Phyllis Schlafly
Game studios, developers, and major publishers need to vocally speak up against the harassment of women and say this behavior is unacceptable. -- Anita Sarkeesian
Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace. -- Gloria Steinem
The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized. -- Katherine Dunn
In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs. -- Naomi Wolf
There is no compulsion in Islam. You convert "voluntarily". But you are free not to convert by accepting subjugation, humiliation, discrimination and constant harassment. What can be more democratic? -- Ali Sina
Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial. -- Barbara Amiel
Online media is the future, and younger feminists are already instrumental in using social media and multi-media platforms on the web to document street harassment, archive and critique the media, and create art. -- Jennifer Baumgardner
Through the 1990s, 'Reason' was a voice of 'dissident feminism,' upholding the equal dignity of both sexes and supporting the rights of individuals against a government that had gone mad over sexual harassment. -- Virginia Postrel
The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism. -- Warren Farrell
I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable. -- Peter Beard
Much extremist activity falls short of directly inciting people to violence or other crimes and so is not caught by laws on incitement. Neither does the Public Order Act, used to protect groups of people from harassment, deal with the problem. -- David Blunkett
Online harassment, especially gendered online harassment, is an epidemic. Women are being driven out; they're being driven offline. This isn't just in gaming. This is happening across the board online, especially with women who participate in or work in male-dominated industries. -- Anita Sarkeesian
Each Act of Parliament intended to address harassment and discrimination has faced objections on the basis of 'you'll never be able to prove...' and 'there's too much legislation already...'. In no case has this line of reasoning ever been sustained. -- Tim Field
The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising. -- Gail Collins
Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into a men's shelter where they face enormous danger, or remaining street homeless and facing the violence, harassment, arrest, and exposure risks of that. -- Dean Spade
Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment. -- Brendan I. Koerner
There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. -- John F. Kerry
For Noah, preaching 120 years without results meant choosing the hard road year after year. Nehemiah, building the wall of Jerusalem, faced constant harassment by enemies from within and without. We cannot honestly, authentically, reasonably and deliberately serve our Lord without our willingness to accept difficulties and inconveniences. -- K.P. Yohannan
In Boston, a couple of the women were students and they mentioned how Boston has a huge student population, and that's specific to their experiences of street harassment. They feel like the men were a lot more aggressive, particularly when it comes to social outings and things like that. -- Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess. -- A. S. Byatt
The agenda in sexual activity, whether it's appropriate or not, has to do with lust, affection, passion, love, but the agenda in sexual harassment is not any of that. It is power, control, dominance. The tool is the same on both, but the agenda is completely different. That's what distinguishes the two. -- Claudia Kennedy
There have been decades of failed policies: zero tolerance, harassment and people being locked up for small crimes -\-\ policies that drive a divide between communities and law enforcement. So many people feel like they are voiceless, that they've been dehumanized. What we saw in the riots is a result of that. -- Marilyn Mosby
When you are subjected to the malicious and furious violence of the passions, and to the harassments of the Devil, during the fulfillment of various works for God, accept these sufferings as sufferings for the name of Christ, and rejoice in your sufferings, thanking God; for the Devil is preparing you, without knowing it himself, the most shining crowns from the Lord. -- John of Kronstadt
What he labels sexual, she labels harassment. -- Ellen Goodman
The days of foot-in-the-door harassment and snatched photos are gone. -- Rebecca
I'm pretty sure there's no sexuality that justifies constant low-level harassment. -- Mallory Ortberg
Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women. -- Warren Farrell
Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic. -- Iggy Azalea
If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem. -- John Scalzi
Sexual harassment in the workplace confuses rewards for performance with rewards for attractiveness and sexual availability. -- Warren Farrell
As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment. -- Hillary Clinton
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it. -- Naomi Wolf
Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it. -- Germaine Greer
Hmm, that's not sexual harassment, baby. When I decide to get sexual, trust me, you'll know it. ~ Braden ~ -- Lora Leigh
[Bill Clinton] gave - he settled a - he settled a sexual harassment case for $850,000 with Paula Jones in 1998. -- Kellyanne Conway
We need to stand together with all of the victims [ of sexual harassment] and make sure they are not silenced. -- Gretchen Carlson
Forcing victims of sexual harassment into secret arbitration proceedings is wrong because it means that nobody ever finds out what really happened. -- Gretchen Carlson
I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously. -- Anita Sarkeesian
I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome." -- Gloria Steinem
The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace. -- Cynthia Heimel
The struggles of dealing with online harassment is the same harassment that women have been dealing with, it's just a new medium in which it's happening. -- Anita Sarkeesian
All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment. -- Sienna Miller
She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness. -- Tess Gerritsen
Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own. -- Dale Spender
Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we make up our own minds what to believe. -- Anna Quindlen
I am hopeful that others who have suffered sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but instead will find the strength to speak out about this serious problem. -- Anita Hill
There is an alarming increase of violence and harassment against gay people, something that is being legitimized by the regime as they brand homosexuality as something abnormal and dangerous to children. -- Cecilia Malmstrom
We should all have greater freedoms to define and pursue our lives without pathologization, de-realization, harassment, threats of violence, violence, and criminalization. I join in the struggle to realize such a world. -- Judith Butler
By depriving the charged person of any defenses [the rulings] mean that sexual dalliance, however voluntarily engaged in, becomes harassment whenever an employee sees fit, after the fact, so to characterize it. -- Robert Bork
Sexual harassment legislation feels unfair to men because if they sued over an ethnic joke, or over a woman discussing pornography or asking them out, they'd be laughed out of the company. -- Warren Farrell
Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial." -- Barbara Amiel
If Hillary Clinton were prosecuted and if... Well, let's just leave it at that. If she were prosecuted, there is not a Republican safe from liberal Democrat harassment and prosecution on there on after. -- Rush Limbaugh
If Hillary Clinton were prosecuted and if... Well, let's just leave it at that. If she were prosecuted, there is not a Republican safe from liberal Democrat harassment and prosecution on there on after. -- Rush Limbaugh
Every woman knows that any man engaging in street harassment can switch to anger very quickly and that anger goes to rage and their rage is their masculinity being threatened. We're scared for good reason. -- Rose McGowan
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare officials and employers, as well as by others who are poor and desperate. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
I was different unique and always happy. At school this attracted playground harassment. Nowadays, while I remain effervescent, quicker to perceive enmity I reserve my warmest touches and smiles for those who smolder with envy. -- Clarence Day

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