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For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977

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Anita Hill
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 30
Attorney
Feminist
Human Rights Activist
Lawyer
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Lone Tree
Oklahoma
Anita Faye Hill
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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.
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I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
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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 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.
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Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.
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The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life
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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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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
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We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.
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I see myself as an educator.
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I became the messenger who had to be killed
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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.
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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.
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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
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I have - often say to people that you really don't get to decide your own legacy. I mean, what you do is, you try to be your own authentic self. And then people decide how they're going to interpret that and what it means to them.
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Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.
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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
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Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before
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Many women are harassed, one in three between the ages of 18 and 34, by one poll. And we need to figure out if, in fact, we are going to enable them to come forward with their complaints, as opposed to enabling harassers and abusers to continue their behavior.
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During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.
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