Meryl Streep has been adamantly championing women for years, and she is not gonna have anyone tell her she doesn’t. Recently, Rose McGowan spoke about the star, saying her “silence” has made the issue even harder to fight.

Speaking to The New York Times, Meryl recalled how the Weinstein news “underlined my own sense of cluelessness” and how she “really had to think” before she responded.

“I found out about this on a Friday and went home deep into my own life,” she told the Times. “And then somebody told me that on Morning Joe they were screaming that I haven’t responded yet. I don’t have a Twitter thing or – handle, whatever. And I don’t have Facebook. I really had to think. Because it really underlined my own sense of cluelessness, and also how evil, deeply evil, and duplicitous, a person he was, yet such a champion of really great work.”

“You make movies. You think you know everything about everybody. So much gossip. You don’t know anything,” she added. “People are so inscrutable on a certain level. And it’s a shock. Some of my favorite people have been brought down by this, and he’s not one of them.”

“I don’t want to hear about the silence of me,” she said. “I want to hear about the silence of Melania Trump. I want to hear from her. She has so much that’s valuable to say. And so does Ivanka. I want her to speak now.”