"There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets."
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"Trade your secrets and become who you are."
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"In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information."
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"...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them."
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"I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time."
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"God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom."
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"How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!"
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