#MeToo Quotes

“Respect your choices and own them”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“Women must stand together. Be strong. We must speak out!”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“Explore your sexuality, respect its power. own it.”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“We must start with our children. Let's educate them to know their rights as human beings.”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“Don't be afraid to speak out, and don't be afraid to leave”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“We are at the tipping point, so let's topple this behaviour once and for all.”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“Respect. Kindness. Acceptance. It starts here. It starts now. It starts with us.”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“Sexual harassment being rampant in our industry - being the undertow, the room tone provides camouflage for the worst kinds of behaviour”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“So gentlemen, let's pledge to have a lot more difficult conversations between ourselves, so that there are fewer difficult "#MeToo" posts from the women in our lives”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“So change must occur on two levels: culturally and personally Let's get educated on sexual predators, and on our own vulnerabilities, so that we can help the collective movement toward a better world”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“Many trauma survivors have emerged from their injuries because of the care and support that they receive from others. In community, our stories can be shared.”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“Shame haunts the sexually assaulted and keeps us locked away in the recesses of our brains, on the outskirts of a pure society, trapped in an all consuming belief of our unworthiness. We become the outcasts. Our silence is our jail keeper”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“The men who would go and beat up or kill the assaulter are participating in the cycle of silence and violence. They're keeping us from speaking our truth for fear of their inability to cope with our trauma. Don't be that guy”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“So this is a slick manoeuvre Aggressors can always pretend they were surprised by the target woman's misinterpretation. Either way, they win. They will either gain a sexual conquest, or they will walk away from this overture without a scratch”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“It's a complicated culture of males letting other males do whatever they want to women It's females staying silent, and even enduring it for years in order to keep their status opportunities, or employment”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“There's no need to document any further the existence of sexism and male privilege in our lives. It's pervasive. What we need now is to blow out the remaining parts of the systems that perpetuate it.”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“Smart, driven people who want to prove themselves will often seek out the most challenging, even abusive experiences to prove to themselves and others they have what it takes to be the best”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“I hope that all women will continue to share their stories band together and show the world that we are fierce and formidable and will not be silenced”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“The internet, amazing as it is, can sometimes seem like a revolving door for social issues and charities competing for our philanthropic affection”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“But it's far from over. if anything, by acknowledging my sexual assaults, i am more keenly aware of the systemic sexual abuse that happens to women.”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“But we have to make these men face more consequences than they currently are: Because if their moral compass won't compel them to act differently, then we must make the consequences of their actions force them to change”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“What really struck me was the culture of people constantly trying to be the best at something, trying to prove something. That resonated with me. From that moment on, I was a willing participant in my own abuse, because I didn't see it as abuse. I saw it as like-minded people working to show the world what we could do.”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“When will it stop? When we finally see each other as human beings. Period Not by our sex Not by our skin color Not by our religion. Just as people. People with feelings. Rights. Boundaries People who deserve better”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“Don't be that guy who rapes, who sexually assaults women, who catcalls who gropes, who makes sexist comments. But don't be that guy who cannot be trusted to deal with the reality of women being assaulted without resorting to physical violence, who cannot be supportive, not because he doesn't care, but because he needs to act out violent impulses”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“I certainly don't mean to imply that all boys/men participate in the harassment that structures the lives of women who are saying #MeToo. They don't. But every boy/man who witnesses the sexual harassment or violation of a girl or woman and does nothing is a participant”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“We are not what we wear, who we date, or the one bad choice we may have made in high school or college. We are strong, powerful and beautiful. So if, as a society we stop villainizing the victims. and start holding the individuals accountable for their actions #MeToo will become a thing of the past”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“I know my story isn't unique however, as more and more women raise their voices on systemic sexual abuse it won't have to be another girls's story”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“The great chorus of voices can help banish undeserved shame, fear, and isolation that many have lived with for too long. The sense of belonging to a tribe can benefit us here. Everyone who knows the truth of sexual assaults and harassment is. in a sense, a member of a club. It used to be a secret society, and it's beginning to throw aside the curtains to let in the light of day.”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“Men's understanding, their empathy, and their thoughts and prayers might be lovely, and are also insufficient. If you have access to them and they help you move ahead, great. If they aren't available, look to your existing community for the support you require. You already know this shit is real. You don't require the validation of the good guys in your life.”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens

“Women remain silent because we know the statistics, we know that most cases won't make it to court, and those that do won't win. We remain silent because we know our actions will be dissected until the assault becomes our fault, not his. We remain silent because in a society where gender inequality still exists, we know speaking out could cost us the advancement we've worked hard to get. the reputation we've built the credibility we carry”
― Lori Perkins, #MeToo: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What It Means and How to Make Sure it Never Happens