“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

“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

“Writers are always selling somebody out.”

Joan Didion

“Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.”

Joan Didion

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

Joan Didion