Daily Inspiration Quote by Jeanne Tripplehorn

Tripplehorn is quietly calling out the media’s favorite trick: reduce a complicated practice to its most scandal-friendly fringe, then act surprised when the public can’t imagine anything else. The line works because it’s not a defense of polygamy so much as a critique of the attention economy. “Only hear about” lands as an indictment of selective exposure, not audience ignorance. People aren’t failing to learn; they’re being fed a narrow slice.

Her phrasing is careful, almost conversational - “Well, I think” softens the entry, signaling she’s not auditioning to be a policy pundit. That restraint is the point. It positions her as a reasonable observer trying to widen the frame, not an ideologue trying to win a fight. Then she drops “extreme, fundamentalist,” a double-stamp that acknowledges real harm and coercion without letting those cases stand in for the whole subject. It’s a rhetorical sidestep around the usual gotcha: if you criticize coverage, you must be excusing the worst actors.

The kicker is the causal chain: “because they’re always in the news being brought up on charges.” Newsworthiness gets equated with criminality, and criminality becomes the public’s mental image of an entire category of people. She’s highlighting how “coverage” is often just court reporting with a moral panic soundtrack - and how that shapes cultural permission to stereotype. Coming from an actress, it also reads as media-savvy self-awareness: she’s naming the narrative machinery that turns minority lifestyles into episodic villains, season after season.