Joan Didion Famous Quotes



Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...

"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."


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