Joan Didion Quotes about Respect

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

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

Joan Didion

Life, Respect, Self Esteem

FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 15, 2011

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

Respect, Lying, Self

Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.108, Zola Books

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

Joan Didion

Respect, Self, Anything Worth Having

"Slouching Towards Bethlehem". Book by Joan Didion, "On Self-Respect", 1968.

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

Love, Respect, Self

Joan Didion (1968). “Slouching towards Bethlehem”

Joan Didion Quotes about Respect

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