On self respect joan didion

Read 145 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. “Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power" was first published in Vogue in 1961, and which was …

In brief, people with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called character, a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to other, more instantly negotiable virtues. - Joan Didion - #quotes #selfrespect

Joan Didion

Joan Didion’s seminal 1961 Vogue essay on self-respect.

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Joan Didion

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: essays by Joan Didion “…the point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have an accurate factual record of what I have been doing or thinking. That would be a different impulse entirely, an instinct for reality which I sometimes envy but do not possess.—— How it felt to me: that is getting closer to the truth about a notebook.” While the personal essays were my favorites, especially On Keeping a Notebook and On Self Respect, I enjoyed this…