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
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.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
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.Joan Didion
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.... We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.Joan Didion
