Affection Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri

But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

The English love for privacy is proverbial, and has not been exaggerated. A stranger who strikes up a conversation is looked upon with suspicion…

— Henry Steele Commager

Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

— Anna Eshoo

Tangentially, Americans, despite many of us being prone to sometimes-eyebrow-raising disclosures about our private lives on social media, still retain what I think of…

— Christine Sneed

Americans are shy about the body.

— Ana Beatriz Barros

“An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite.”

— Thornton Wilder

“No race on earth is as clever at being strangers as the British. They wrap themselves in formality, they withdraw behind veil after veil…

— Susan Howatch

“though they are on the whole less violent, personal relations in modern urban communities also lack the intimacy and continuity of those in most…

— David Christian

“The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around…

— Raquel Cepeda

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

— Herbert Hoover

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.

— John Perry Barlow

“Regardless of how dead we feel in a crowd, we cling to the uniquely American assumption that associating is good and necessary and solitude…

— Laurie Helgoe