Cheryl Yeoh Quotes

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.

I've been getting chatted up by men ever since I was 14.

I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.

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.

The boys in junior high get really lewd and say outrageous stuff to the girls. If somebody yelled the stuff at me that I've heard at junior high schools I've visited, I'd be scared and humiliated.

What I noticed about L.A. is that people try to hit on you in your car. It's incredibly creepy to be in a car and have the guy next to you roll down his window.

A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.

Rape is not illegal. It is regulated.

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

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

Anyone should have the right to say no if they don't want someone to kiss them or touch them or date them or anything.

Sexual harrassment and abuse is intolerable.

There's a marked difference between a sexual predator, coercion tactics, and a man hitting on someone with the intention dating/wanting to get to know a girl he likes, however awkward, unpolished it may be.

I know you want it, boy. I see you tryin. Just keep on pushin, I'm a let you slide in.

Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)

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.

Harassment is one of puberty's darkest, most unreported rites of passage.

Assault in any form is never OK, and I want to be very clear on that.

For a number of years at my public elementary school in rural Maine, I was treated like all the other girls in school. That changed in September 2007 when a male classmate, set on a path by his grandfather, followed me into the girls' restroom. The end result was that I had to use the school's staff bathroom - just me, no one else.

Once, I was followed by a car when I was driving. Every time I sped up, the car sped up, and when I slowed down, it slowed down. Eventually, I stopped, got out and screamed, 'What do you want?' He said, 'I just wanted to give you some flowers because I'm such a fan.' I felt awful. He was just being kind.

I hate people who 'gaze rape' me.

In many cases, women are being harassed by people who are on their board or who are associated with one of their venture capitalists.

I've been in situations, when I was younger, when I had people forcing me doing stuff that they don't want to do.

Early in my career, I was subjected to harassment in the form of some unwelcome suggestive comments and overtures.

What is clear is that stalking can happen to anyone. Doctors are targeted by patients, people in the public eye are watched by obsessed fans, and ex-wives are followed by former husbands.