Anita Hill
Anita Hill
Anita Faye Hillis an American attorney and academic. She is a University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's Studies at Brandeis University and a faculty member of Brandeis' Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She became a national figure in 1991 when she accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, her boss at the U.S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, of sexual harassment...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth30 July 1956
CityLone Tree, OK
CountryUnited States of America
What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it
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.
I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
I see myself as an educator.
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
The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life
I became the messenger who had to be killed
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
I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career
Whether the person you are playing is real or fictional, you try to go to the heart of that person.
It would have been more comfortable to remain silent.
If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender.
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.
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.