Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

I don't think I could live with anybody. I had roommates, and it's not for me. I like my space!

I always sleep on my own. I can't sleep with somebody else. Always separate bedrooms, bathrooms and closets. I'm very individual and I want my own space.

It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

We live in a world where we often get told what we should and shouldn't do. I don't think we should worry so much.

I do like having a private life.

I think anyone who's willing to be brutally honest with who they are and express themselves is always going to get the oddball label, the pyscho label, the twisted label. That's what happens.

I don't like the idea of being connected to the world all the time. One should have space and time for oneself.

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

I just think everyone needs their own private space.

I keep saying, 'Don't change. Be who you are,' but society is really strong in their opinions.

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

What is it about conformity itself that causes us all to require it of our neighbors and of our artists and then, with consummate fickleness, to forget those who fall into line and eternally celebrate those who do not?

Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that seems to be what is happening.

Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.

Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things I've learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think I'm the only one that does that.

The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.

You cannot lay down a standard which all must follow.

A lot of people are scared. It's the way you're raised. The way you've been told your whole life, that you've got to do this and that. Get a job, go to school. So, a lot of people are scared to just do what they really want. They're worried about what people will think and stuff like that. It's just fear.

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied.