Jennifer Hyman Quotes

Sexual Harassment ... unwanted sexual advances against women employees by male supervisors, bosses, foremen or manager

I've experienced harassment. I've had male comedians be very inappropriate.

I made advances towards multiple women in work-related situations, where it was clearly inappropriate. I put people in compromising and inappropriate situations, and I selfishly took advantage of those situations where I should have known better. My behavior was inexcusable and wrong.

Sexual harrassment and abuse is intolerable.

I deplore sexual harassment.

Whether it's Hollywood or Bollywood, sexual harassment is a reality. I've experienced it first-hand, and I know many of my counterparts have as well.

Sexual harassment does bring shame.

Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.

Women should not be forced to accept sexual harassment as the price of admission to a life and career in the political world. They should not have to endure unwanted touching, innuendo, and propositioning from men in positions of power.

I'm tired of people not taking sexual harassment as a serious issue. It is.

It's a mistake, you know. You have no idea what you'll be exposed to...the obscenities and lewd comments, the lecherous gazes, the groping and pinching...and that's just my house. Imagine what it would be like here.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.

I don't know Bill Clinton as someone who needs to literally sexually harass a woman. I'm sure that he could have found many willing participants.

Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

Sometimes when women come forward about sexual harassment, they're seen as a troublemaker.

A woman can be harassed and then go on to have a good working relationship with the man harassing her.

Sexual inappropriacy in my industry? Absolutely. Almost every week.

When women are told that sexual harassment is 'part of the job' or when assistants of both sexes enable harassing behavior, they have bought into the culture that says such behavior is not just permissible, it is a desirable expression of power.

In the writers' room, I know the difference when someone brushes up against me and makes a sexist crack and when they've stepped over the line and made me feel uncomfortable and unsafe.

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

I stand second to none in condemning sexual harassment of women.

My experiences have also convinced me that sexual harassment is very rarely publicly punished after it is reported, and then only after a pattern of relatively egregious offenses.

I have had an actor squeeze himself up against me during a shot in a song and whisper in my ear that he was so glad that I was in the film with him. When I threw him off me and refused to speak to him again, he made my experience miserable.

I stand by all the women who have had to deal with inappropriate behavior of any sort.