Tippi Hedren Quotes

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.

Train your girls, if someone is touching you the wrong way, slap him.

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.

I'm not going to be anybody's punching bag.

I am not going to give in to people who try to exploit me because of my celebrity status.

Intimidation doesn't last very long.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Bipartisanship is another name for date rape.

When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.

Women need to be able to speak out if they are uncomfortable or something happened in the past that they were not comfortable with.

If you're in a situation where someone's mistreating you, I think it's your duty to speak out.

Men are even afraid to say, 'You look nice,' or, 'You look pretty,' when you come out of hair and makeup to walk on set. And before, men would constantly - producers would constantly say things, but that's kind of a way that they would butter the actresses up and make them feel secure.

I had people when I was younger trying to feel me up. Older men. I just told them to get lost.

A man in a position of power over me used that said power to try and take advantage of me.

My message to women - including women of color - stand strong. Refuse to be minimized or patronized. Let all the small guys out there be intimidated by you.

People always use power, that's the unsurprising thing. They use it to try to sleep with who they want to sleep with - women as well as men do that - but I don't understand violence.

I will not be a punching bag as part of anyone's defense strategy.

I don't think anyone likes to be pushed around.

I know what it's like to have guys make you feel like you need to flirt with them or be sexy or hook up with them or something, and you don't have to do those things. You just have to be strong and stand your ground.

It was a nice bit of blackmail that kept him off my back, but he refused to take the message that I wasn’t going to work for him. ’Course, that might be my fault…since I seemed unable to say no when he waved enough money at me.

I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.