Lauren Mayberry Quotes

Girls are telling me to take my shirt off. It's like, 'Hello! I'm a person, too!'

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

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

There are a lot of people out there who will try to take advantage of you or are predators in a certain way. Women must stand up and speak out about it. Also, anybody who says that they have been wronged should be supported in every possible manner.

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

We had to pose with towels wrapped around us, holding rubber rings, that sort of thing. The turning point came when a photographer asked us to get on a fur rug and crawl like cats. We said no, because it was sexist and disrespectful.

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?

I used to think that the worst form of discrimination for women was being hit on or hearing something disparaging. What's even more challenging for young women is a very senior male who will take an interest in you, who see themselves as father figures or mentors.

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

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

Conceptually, I always took issue with bullies and those who took advantage of others, whether it was a teacher's cruelty to a student, or a student who picked fights with others.

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.

Foreigners had bullied us too much.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

There is no excuse for making disrespectful and demeaning comments about women.

Men are even afraid to say, 'You look nice,' or, 'You look pretty,' when you come out of hair and makeup to walk on set. And before, men would constantly - producers would constantly say things, but that's kind of a way that they would butter the actresses up and make them feel secure.

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.

It is difficult to have the guts to speak up about any kind of sexual assault.

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

I've certainly been in situations where I've been rejected and endangered and had my humanity put in question - just as almost every woman on the planet has.

No one has the right to harass anyone. I fully support the #MeToo movement.

Christine Keeler was not allowed a voice. There were so many men who were imposing their views and opinions onto her and they decided who she was. Christine never had the opportunity to truly give her side of the story.