Lisa Kleypas Quotes

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

Sexual harrassment and abuse is intolerable.

I deplore sexual harassment.

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.

I was sexually harassed while building Rent the Runway - propositioned, sent sexual text messages, harassed and threatened in person.

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

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

I wasn't naive, but at the end of my Miss America year, when two different executives attacked me during what I thought were informational interviews about jobs, I was shocked. I didn't see it coming, and the worst thing about it was the shame I felt, as if I'd done something wrong.

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.

I'm pretty sure there's no sexuality that justifies constant low-level harassment.

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

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.

Sexual harassment doesn't discriminate. You can wear a skirt, hospital scrubs, army fatigues. You can be young or old, married or single, black or white. You can be a Republican, a Democrat or an Independent. I heard from so many women: police officers, members of our military, financial assistants, actors, engineers, lawyers, bankers, accountants, teachers ... journalists. Sexual harassment, it turns out, is not about sex. It's about power, and about what somebody does to you to try and take away your power. And I'm here today to encourage you to know that you can take that power back.

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.

Guys always follow me into the bathroom and ask for pictures and stuff.

Even though we have laws against it and HR departments to handle it, a woman - especially if she is young and just starting out - can never be sure that reporting harassment won't hurt her career.

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

It's time for men to be held accountable when they make women feel uncomfortable or do things out of line.

I think any woman who has felt violated or felt mistreated in any way, they have every right to speak up.

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

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

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.

I've heard many women say that they were afraid to come out or they were too ashamed to talk about it because they thought it was something they had done to promote the man to sexually harass them - and that is not the case.

I might be one of the very few people in this industry who doesn't have a 'me too' story.