American Privately Built

Famous quotes containing the words american, privately and/or built:

“If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there’s something wrong with American politics.”
—Edna Ferber (1887–1968)

“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)

“They built by rivers and at night the water
Running past windows comforted their sorrow;”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)