#privacy

I want some one to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, its waitings, and its suspicions. After quarreling and reconciliation I need privacy--to be alone with you, to set this hubbub in order. For I am as neat as a cat in my habits. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#companionship #friendship #peace #privacy #quietness

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#called #concerned #family #i #i think

Writing can sometimes be exploitative. I like to take a few steps of remove in order to respect the privacy of the subject. If readers make the link, they have engaged with the poem. ↗

— John Barton

#exploitative #few #i #like #link

Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#complicated #deciding #enough #having #homes

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#give #makes #privacy #security #show

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#authors #backs #behind #dead #down

Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#day #facebook #lack #might #one day

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret. ↗

— Gabriel García Márquez

#privacy #public-image #secrecy #life

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born. ↗

— José Saramago

#inspiration #privacy #inspirational

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference. ↗