Patty Hearst quotes

Patty Hearst is an American celebrity and heiress who gained national attention after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Her subsequent involvement with the group and participation in criminal activities led to widespread controversy and public debate. She later became a symbol of the complexities of victimhood, trauma, and media influence. Here are 30 of her quotes:

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped. (Patty Hearst)
I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake. View quote
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I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks. View quote
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I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won. View quote
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There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court. View quote
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Well, you know, it's really been, you know, quite a trip for me. View quote
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And, you know, like I said, I'm not looking forward to a trial. View quote
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Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were. View quote
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My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened. View quote
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Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter. View quote
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Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States. (Patty Hearst)
But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here. View quote
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And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened. View quote
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And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot. View quote
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You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case. View quote
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It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it. View quote
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I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too. View quote
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I had not seen that until - and when it first came out I was told. I had not seen or been aware of all of that physical evidence. And when I saw it, I was horrified. It was so astounding to me to see that there was that much evidence. View quote
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And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons. View quote
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There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury. View quote
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And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at that, it really was their own little jihad that they had going. It just wasn't taken very seriously then. (Patty Hearst)
I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader. View quote
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They called themselves an army. They were planning on recruiting more armies. They were planning on splitting up and forming smaller cells and going into different areas, recruiting more members and just growing until they had started a full scale war in this country. View quote
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But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it. View quote
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Well, you know, one lawyer says I'm the only witness and I'm not credible. Another lawyer says this witness - there's tons of evidence that's been available for years. View quote
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Patty Hearst

Patty Hearst - Image
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Occupation: American Celebrity
Born: February 20, 1954
Quotes count: 30