Privately Persecuted

Famous quotes containing the words privately and/or persecuted:

“Rape is a culturally fostered means of suppressing women. Legally we say we deplore it, but mythically we romanticize and perpetuate it, and privately we excuse and overlook it.”
—Victoria Billings (b. 1945)

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)