Becca Fitzpatrick Quotes
There was nothing wrong with fire … as long as you didn’t stand too close. Something to keep in mind.
Fitzpatrick, Becca. Hush, Hush. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2009.
In Afghanistan and other Islamic nations where there is a fundamentalist view of women, many advocates of women’s rights have been assaulted and/or murdered. In some cases, on the grounds of blasphemy.
In early America, the political parties had their own newspapers where “truth” was not an important journalistic virtue. Red scares and other fears of foreign conspiracies are as old as our nation. In 1798 the Federalists accused Vice President Thomas Jefferson, among others, of being in contact with the foreign conspirators and printed details of a "manufactured" plot to massacre the citizens of Philadelphia in one of their controlled newspapers. The nation was so alarmed that the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by Congress a few months later. These were probably the greatest infringements on American civil liberties in our history.
Becca Fitzpatrick is an American author, best known for having written the New York Times bestseller Hush, Hush.
