Quotes About Self-disclosure

I don't need to make an announcement about who I'm dating. It's up to me to decide when and what I want to share about my personal life, and it is up to the audience to decide how they look at it.

I like people wanting to know about me.

In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on.

I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

One should never ask a man questions about his personal life. He just might answer and then you, my dear, would have to listen.

The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.

It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know.

It's simply impossible for me to filter my thoughts and feelings. I tell it from my point of view. I'm an open book.

When and if I wish to yield my privacy to the scrutiny of others, you will be the first to be invited to the exhibition.

There's nothing anybody who watches my videos doesn't know about me, unless it's something genuinely sacred and private to me.

I chose to share my life online, so I can't really complain about it. There's not much that's off limits.

We can answer the question "Who is God?" only by attending to who God has revealed himself to be.

We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than his proclaiming the character to another.

I considered the concept of "oversharing", and what undersharing might be, and whether it was ever possible to settle on something in between.

One does not wish to lose the fondness of people one admires by revealing too much of oneself.

When you're interested in somebody and you think they might be interested in you, you should point out all your beauty problems and defects right away, rather than take a chance they won't notice them.

I am perfectly capable of writing things about myself that one doesn't discuss in polite company, but I was raised by people who said you don't discuss politics, you don't discuss religion, and you certainly don't discuss people's sex lives.

Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.

As much as I can, I like to curate the information the people know personally about me.

I do end up revealing a lot online, but in books, what I reveal is more tailored. Authors can couch revelations in fiction. With social media, no one wants to watch or read if it doesn't feel authentic, so you end up giving away a lot of yourself.

I'm just so comfortable talking about my private life: I just think because I'm not that clever.

Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves?