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

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

Acceptance American Author

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. - Joan Didion Quotes

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

American Author

I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him, ... This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response. - Joan Didion Quotes

I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him, ... This impulse did not end with his death. What ended was the possibility of response.

hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back. - Joan Didion Quotes

hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self - Joan Didion Quotes

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. - Joan Didion Quotes

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.

Ability Self-respect

A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye. - Joan Didion Quotes

A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from. - Joan Didion Quotes

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

American Author

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect. - Joan Didion Quotes

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

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. - Joan Didion Quotes

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.

American Author

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