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
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To have that sense of ones 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
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Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? – Joan Didion
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