American Privately

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“The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)

“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)