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"Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself."
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"Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself."

"If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender."

"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."

"I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself."

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"I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant."

"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 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."

"But I think it would be irresponsible for me not to say what I really believe in my heart to be true - that there are some serious inequities that we face as women and that we can work to address these inequities."
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