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 1 Share Now -
I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness. - Joan Didion 2 Share Now -
It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento. - Joan Didion 3 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. - Joan Didion 7 Share Now -
Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it. - Joan Didion 8 Share Now -
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. - Joan Didion 9 Share Now -
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 10 Share Now -
