Quotes from Anita Hill

When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.

Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter.

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since.

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.

I thought that by saying no and explaining my reasons my employer would abandon his social suggestions. However, to my regret, in the following few weeks, he continued to ask me out on several occasions.

My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about

During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.

One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.

The FBI has had a history of sex discrimination complaints brought against it, as well as race discrimination.

Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.

I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.

What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.

I am hopeful that others who have suffered sexual harassment will not become discouraged by my experience, but instead will find the strength to speak out about this serious problem.

Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before

Women who accuse men, particularly powerful men, of harassment are often confronted with the reality of the men's sense that they are more important than women, as a group.

Most of us have everything we need to get through a crisis; we just have to tap into it.

Early suffragists saw the vote as key to all women's personal as well as political autonomy. But a hundred years of women's suffrage has shown that gaining the right to vote or run for office will not be enough as long as we're threatened with emotional, physical, economic or sexual abuse af work, at school or in our own homes.

I no doubt have benefited from affirmative action programs, which looked at my race, gender, and background and determined whether I would be admitted. But I am not ashamed of this fact, nor do I apologize for it. Such programs provided me with the opportunity to prove myself, no more, no less. After admission, my success or failure would be determined by my efforts. I do not consider myself either more or less worthy than my colleagues in the same programs.