We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.

We often intensify our unhappiness by being ashamed of being unhappy.

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.

The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.

Our ignorance has left us proud of some of the things of which we ought to be ashamed.

Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them.

You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.