Chinmayi Quotes

I'm just full of surprises." Watching her, he waved the wrapped bar from side to side. "You can have the candy if you sit on my lap." That sounds like something perverted old men say to young, stupid girls." I'm not old, and you're not stupid." He sat, patted his knee. "It's Belgian chocolate." Just because I'm sitting on your lap and eating your candy doesn't mean you can cop a feel," she said as she folded into his lap.

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.

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.

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

People in India like to touch a lot. It's not very nice for any girl to be touched by strangers wherever they want. You wouldn't do that to your sister or mother, but just because one is an actor, they think she is your property.

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.

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

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.

Non-consensual, sexual advances are not the same as flirtatious comments from a creepy dude. The degree of harassment matters.

I think that those kinds of lessons are so deeply ingrained in our society that we don't even realize that it is creepy or that men are not taking 'no' for an answer. It's deemed romantic to keep pursuing after a woman has said 'no.'

Someone who responds to "Please don't grope me" with whining and pouting isn't a friend. He's an asshole and a predator.

If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.

When I was in high school, my thing was to get as close as humanly possible to a girl and just make her have to kiss me! You do the hug that's too close, where your mouth is close to hers and you kinda feel it out a little bit.

One famous movie executive, who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer, not an exhibitor.'

When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary, especially as a young boy. Very predatory - a hunt.

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

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

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

Threaten me, but don't threaten my wife or say something about my kids. It's just wrong.

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 haven't faced a casting couch in the South or Bollywood. But yes, I have faced my share of harassment in both industries. I don't have the guts to name them because they are powerful people - men and women who made sure I felt helpless.

Did I haze the Miz? Hell yes!

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.