Ma Rainey Quotes

I keep what's mine, and I do not share.

It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.

I just keep my cars to myself.

I don't know how people get so anti-something. Just mind your own business, take care of your own affairs, and don't worry about other people so much.

If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.

You don't get to see all my family drama, you don't get in my relationships, and you don't get to live inside my personal life. But if you don't pick at me, I'm pretty open to just let you in.

I believe in having a private life.

No one's coming in seeing my dogs, daughter or the crack of my ass, forget it.

I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else.

The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.

I had an upbringing to respect other people's privacy and their right to be and choose what they want, and I expect - no, demand - no less for myself.

The less I give of myself to the public, the less I can be hurt.

I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan. ... They need to live their lives as well.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

She doesn’t want me to own her. (Dante) Well, the Simi doesn’t understand that. Owning’s not so bad. I own akri and he kind of fun. (Simi)

A man's head is his castle.

What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.

Bill said, "She is mine." I wondered if my hands would move. They would. I raised both of them, making an unmistakable one-fingered gesture. Eric laughed, and Bill said "Sookie!" in shocked admonishment. "I think that Sookie is telling us she belongs to herself," Eric said softly.

He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.

Nope. That´s my line. This is my boyfriend´s house, which makes that my line,exclusively.Where is he?" Nora (p. 287)

If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

I always feel bad when I meet celebrities and I can just tell every single thing about their personal life, I just say, "Well, they don't have friends. Or a therapist." Once you have both, you don't have to share everything with people, because then you don't have a private life, and then you're, I guess, a workaholic.

I know when things feel a little, like, intrusive and when they don't. I don't have a lot to hide. But I do sometimes think, don't share everything.