John Dickerson Quotes

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

some fraternities are guilty of encouraging and rewarding sexual conquest that condones or normalizes sexual assault.

I work in politics and media, two industries that have been particularly affected by the issue of misconduct. We have seen famous and powerful men finally pay a price for behavior they got away with for decades. Many have lost their positions and status - rightly so.

We live with a distinct double standard about male and female aggression. Women's aggression isn't considered real. It isn't dangerous; it's only cute. Or it's always self-defense or otherwise inspired by a man. In the rare case where a woman is seen as genuinely responsible, she is branded a monster - an 'unnatural' woman.

We must have zero tolerance for sexual harassment, even if the perpetrator is somebody we like and admire.

When women wear jeans people are tempted to pay attention to what is beyond it thus forcing them to do undesirable things.

How sad is that life when a man thinks that his manliness comes with asking sexual favours from a woman. That's the saddest way of being a man.

Casting couch is not just a man's fault. It is important to say this because we blame the other side always.

I think that the Me Too movement, which in some ways has been very good, in other ways, as with everything else, has been very damaging. Because really it has immobilised men. It has really prevented men from being men.

Nobody says, hey men should not drink. It's all about women must dress differently, women must walk differently, women must drink differently. Why are we not able to hold men to account for this behavior?

I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.

Yes, Bill Clinton is a big flirt.

Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'

All men hate the nagging.

We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

I used to cry myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because of the way men leered at and disrespected me.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

The word 'excess' has no meaning for a male.

If a girl is not covered from head to toe, it does not mean she is inviting you to ogle at her. If we are interpreting it that way, it is not the girl, but our upbringing that is to be blamed. It is the thought process that needs to be changed.

Strong women only marry weak men.

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.