Top 33 Meena Harris Quotes

As a consumer, I love nothing more than to find and support women-owned brands – and especially women of color-owned brands.

Kids deserve to be taken seriously. It’s just as important to talk to them about women’s equality, about fairness. We really have to focus on children early.

I always felt like I could participate at the adult table, but I also knew that if you’re going to make an argument about something, you better have something good to say.

I never thought Phenomenal Woman would turn into something big, you know?

In fact, when I began selling ‘Phenomenal Woman’ T-shirts on International Women’s Day last year, the campaign was supposed to run just through March, for Women’s History Month. At the time, I hoped to sell around 500, maybe 1,000 T-shirts in total. We ended up selling 2,500 T-shirts on the first day alone.

While a lot of the issues we raise awareness around are related, we want to use our platform to draw attention to the fact that the impact they have on different communities is often distinct.

I’ve always been a creative, entrepreneurial minded person, and I’ve always been inspired by other creatives, including fashion designers.

Working with different communities and organizations allows us to raise awareness in a nuanced and impactful way, while also giving us broad reach.

You have to give employees a lot of autonomy to think more creatively and out of the box. You need to hire people who are going to understand how to do this responsively and strategically.

I think about the notion of progress; sometimes it does feel like two steps forward, one step back. And that just means you can’t get complacent.

My grandmother was such an incredible example of living out everyday acts of resistance. I now realize not only how lucky I was to grow up in that environment, but also how unique that was.

I grew up surrounded by these strong, brilliant women who showed me what it meant to show up in the world with purpose and intention.

My work is myself. That’s what makes me feel like I have purpose. It makes me happy and inspired and hopeful – as hard as it may be sometimes.

From the beginning, I conceptualised Phenomenal Woman as a social-impact initiative. I knew that the campaign wasn’t really about a cool T-shirt, but rather using the T-shirt to benefit and amplify a cause.

We should want children to value difference. Preparing them for a more just world doesn’t mean teaching them to aspire to purple. It means helping them learn to celebrate black.

I know what sexual harassment looks like. I’m also a lawyer by training and am highly aware that these behaviors should have real consequences.

While celebrities with large online followings certainly help to spread a campaign message quickly, they don’t make an entire movement. I was strategic in obtaining influencer participation, but I also was intentional in finding ways to mobilise organic grassroots support.

Preventative measures should be taken to provide the fundamentals of recognizing and addressing sexual harassment. If all community members are required to undergo such training, it will be assumed in any case of sexual harassment that the perpetrator understood the effect of his actions.

When male allies make space for women, they’re not diminishing their own power. Rather, they’re enhancing everyone’s.

I guess maybe my method is to take self-care where you can – even if it is something sort of small and it’s not a whole routine. It’s this idea of resetting, shutting down, stepping away.

Something I’ve definitely learned from my aunt and my mom is that you’ve got to keep your eye on the ball. You have to realize that, in some instances, you may need to work twice as hard to get half as much, but you don’t stop. You don’t stop fighting.

I wrote ‘Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea’ because I don’t want my daughters to think in euphemisms.

But when we’re helping children understand how people from different walks of life can coexist, prioritizing common ground too often obscures or erases uncommon experiences.

The reality is people are busy living their lives. People are taking their kids to school in the morning. People want to go to brunch on Saturdays. And that’s OK.

I early on showed interest in the arts and I used to say, ‘I’m an artist, I’m an artist.’

At the most basic level, if men have institutional power, they have tremendous influence to change those institutions.

Supporting the people in our businesses is what we need to be thinking about. It’s a no-brainer. It improves leadership. It improves productivity. It cultivates this entrepreneurship concept and improves retention.

I have a whole quarantine-on-camera look and it’s my Harwell Godfrey hoops, my Phenomenal shirt, glasses, and my hair tied up into a bun. If I’m on camera, I’ll wear some makeup.

Encouraging individual firms to develop forward-leaning policies that address sexual harassment is necessary, but alone such prescriptions are insufficient.

Thinking like an entrepreneur means establishing a core audience of early adopters and constantly experimenting to make your product better and better. If your initial concept is showing promise and early success, keep iterating to refine and evolve your idea.

As a community, Silicon Valley must adopt principles that reflect our abhorrence toward sexual harassment – and it is these principles that must guide our collective behavior.

Like a lot of folks coming out of the 2016 election, I was feeling sort of desperate and helpless in terms of the outcome we were facing.

In 2018, according to the Children’s Cooperative Book Center at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Education, fewer than a third of all children’s and young adult books in the United States featured a person of color as a main character.