“Can you tell me what incidences occurred — of the ones you’ve described to us — occurred in his office?” “The incident with regard to the Coke can — that’s spelled out in my statement.” “Would you describe it once again for me, please?” “The incident involved his going to his desk — getting up from a work table — going to his desk, looking at this can and saying, ‘Who put pubic hair on my Coke?’” “Are there any other incidences that occurred in his office?” “I recall at least one instance, in his office at the E.E.O.C., where he discussed some pornographic material.” “What was the content of what he said?” “Well, this was a reference to an individual who had a very large penis and he used the name that he had been referred to in the pornographic material. Um —” “Do you recall what it was?” “Yes, I do. The name that was referred to was Long Dong Silver.” “You testified this morning in response to Senator Biden that the most embarrassing question involved — this is not too bad — women’s large breasts. That’s a word we use all the time. That was the most embarrassing aspect of what Judge Thomas had said to you?” “No, the most embarrassing aspect was his description of the acts of these individuals, these women. The acts that those particular people would engage in. It wasn’t just the breasts. It was the continuation of his story about what happened in those films with the people with this characteristic — physical characteristic —” “With the physical characteristic of —” “The large breasts.” “Well, in your statement to the F.B.I., you did refer to the films. But there’s no reference to the physical characteristic you describe. I don’t want to attach too much weight to it. But I had thought you said that the aspect of the large breasts was the aspect that concerned you. And that was missing from the statement to the F.B.I.” “I’ve been — I have been misunderstood.” “Are you a scorned woman?” “No.” “Are you a zealot, civil-rights believer — that progress will be turned back If Clarence Thomas goes on the court?” “I — no, I don’t. I think that I have my opinion. But I don’t think that progress will be turned back. I think that civil rights will prevail no matter what happens with the court.” “Do you have a militant attitude relative to the area of civil rights?” “No, I don’t have a militant attitude.” “Do you have a martyr complex?” “No I don’t.” “Well, do you see that coming out of this, that you can be a hero in the civil-rights movement?” “I do not have that kind of complex. I don’t like all of the attention that I’m getting. I don’t — I would not — even if I liked the attention, I would not lie to get attention.” “Why in God’s name — when he left his position of power or status or authority over you — and you left it in 1983 — why in God’s name would you ever speak to a man like that the rest of your life?” “That’s a very good question. And I’m sure that I can not answer that to your satisfaction. That is one of the things that I have tried to do today. I have suggested that I was afraid of retaliation. I was afraid of damage to my professional life. And I believe that you have to understand that this response — and that, and that’s one of the things that I have come to understand about harassment, that this response, this kind of response, is not atypical. And I can’t explain. It takes an expert in psychology to explain how that can happen. But it can happen because it happened to me.”