Quotes About Privacy

But I want you to understand that there can't be information about you—that is true—that you don't already know. Your life takes place in your skin. No one else knows a goddamn thing,

Some cover themselves with a jacket or blanket; like turtles, they withdraw into their shells.

They were too showy, too public. Deep love between two people was a private, wordless endeavor,

snowed in with secrets. Whenever she opened

I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.

She had said, "Those people at the Gestapo, they know everything about a person." Mrs. Wallau had said, "That's all exaggeration. They only know what they've been told.

The key to autonomy, she realized, was more than root access on the programs that shaped her desires. It was a sense of privacy.

Whistle had a social life that he didn't tell her about, and she didn't ask. It was one of many nonverbal agreements they had that made their working relationship deeply amicable and pleasing.

And tonight—Geryon? You okay? Yes fine, I'm listening. Tonight—? Why do you have your jacket over your head? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Can't hear you Geryon. The jacket shifted. Geryon peered out. I said sometimes I need a little privacy.

But if one says: I cannot come because it is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange. What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice.

Ici, je me cache quand je veux. Je puis me cacher des jours et des jours, sans qu'on sache si j'existe ou non, et, sans que je le sache bien moi-même. Je m'enferme là-haut. Je lis, je dors, je rêve. Je ne bouge plus.

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

no one even knows if she likes boys or girls, she won't tell anyone. People resent that about her, and Connell thinks that's why they tell the story, as a way of gawking at something they're not allowed to see.

I was afraid my mother would ask me why my period was late. I was sure she kept an eye on my underwear as she sorted through the dirty linen I would bring her once a month.

Il m'appelait tous les jours d'une cabine téléphonique, pour ne pas éveiller les soupçons de la fille avec qui il vivait.

SOMETIMES I HAVE THE FEELING THAT I HAVE SECRETS. They aren't really secrets, because I don't want to talk about them, and besides, they're things that can't be told to anyone.

If someone wants to know your business, tell them to invest in it.

If you're a professional athlete, and after the game, you're eating at the same place that somebody in the audience is eating at? You're making a mistake.

I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother.

My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

I think it's better not to mix professional life and personal life - although it is hard.

I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.

I wish over the years I had kept my private life private and my professional life a little more professional.

I have a professional life, and so does the media. Let's face it: how can they come up with new gossip every day? So, they have to make stuff up about someone's personal life, which is fine.