Men talk, but rarely about anything personal. Recent research on friendship ... has shown that male relationships are based on sha...red activities: men tend to do things together rather than simply be together.... Female friendships, particularly close friendships, are usually based on self-disclosure, or on talking about intimate aspects of their lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disgu...ised, or a little mistaken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Confidentiality refers to the boundaries surrounding shared secrets and to the process of guarding these boundaries. While confide...ntiality protects much that is not in fact secret, personal secrets lie at its core. The innermost, the vulnerable, often the shameful: these aspects of self-disclosure help explain why one name for professional confidentiality has been "the professional secret." Such secrecy is sometimes mistakenly confused with privacy; yet it can concern many matters in no way private, but that someone wishes to keep from the knowledge of third parties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while th...e former fear that disclosure will take away pleasure (that pure pleasure, that pleasure per se, which immediately ceases once the vanity's satisfaction is added).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is my purpose to disclose the mystery at once, and to ask you to look for your interest,--should you choose to go on with my ch...ronicle,--simply in the conduct of my persons, during this disclosure to others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here I am.... You get the parts of me you like and also the parts that make you uncomfortable. You have to understand that other p...eople's comfort is no longer my job. I am no longer a flight attendant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... there has been a very special man in my life for the past year. All I'll say about him is that he's kind, warm, mature, someon...e I can trust--and he's not a politician.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »