Anne Lamott Quotes

I feel that certain things are best kept inside a family and not discussed with anyone else.

I don't like to talk about my personal life, so I will not talk about others. I don't give advice. I give advice to only my mother, father, and brother on health.

Certain family matters should always remain private within the family.

Well, I just don't want to talk to America about my family. Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby.

There are big parts of my life that I don't share. I don't share myself eating dinner with my family. I don't talk about who I'm dating. That's private; that's me.

My sister is not a public person, so I don't think it's right to discuss her.

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and there was always something that would stop me, I thought they were asking me for the wrong motives.

I feel only my friends and family need to know what is happening in my personal life.

I just don't think it's appropriate talking about family stuff publicly.

As a public personality, I keep things related to my children and partner to myself. They are private matters.

My family has always been private about our time spent together.

As a family, we are all very close, so we all know what we all are doing. Other than that, we don't see why we should be talking about our private lives and keep it an open book.

It's nobody's business how much I see my daughter or my grandkids, that's something personal that I care not to share.

There are certain things that only me, my friends and family should know. It's not everyone's business.

I can't answer for my mother. She was a very private person, and did not discuss a lot of things.

I have always kept my personal relationships pretty private, whether it's intimate or my family or friends - at least in videos. It's always been something that I've sworn off from sharing online.

I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?

I don't feel I owe my readers details of my family's private life.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

A person who has no secrets is a liar. We always fold ourselves away from others just enough to preserve a secret or two, something that we cannot share without destroying our inner landscape.

I'm pretty private as a person - people generally think they know more about me than they do, because I gregariously advertise what I want known. So it pains me to think people might feel they have an insight into my personal matters, which they most certainly do not.

A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.

I've always been someone who's kept my private life a little private. When there's a ring on my finger, I'll talk about it.