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 Power
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 Amazing
It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento. -Joan Didion Christmas
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
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 Strength
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 Romantic
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service. -Joan Didion Great
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 Fear
