Its been over two decades since the professor and Yale Law School alum publicly detailed her own sexual harassment. Now shes offering Hollywood her guidance.
There’s an Eleanor Roosevelt quote that’s of special significance to Anita Hill: “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face,” it begins. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” In 1991, Hill faced the fearsome ordeal of testifying, on TV, before the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee at Clarence Thomas’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings. She accused him of sexually harassing her 10 years earlier, when she’d worked as his assistant at the U.S. Department of Education and then at the EEOC. After the hearings were over—the committee having all but ignored her testimony—Hill’s distinguished legal career took a back seat to the national symbol she’d become: a woman degraded. Meanwhile, Thomas would be confirmed for his position on the Supreme Court.
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