Quotes by Didion, Joan

Writers are always selling somebody out. >>

It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparent >>

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used t >>

Quotations about Self-respect

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. >>

I have just about all I can take of myself. >>

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-res >>

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.

Didion, Joan