On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay From the Pages of Vogue
Indeed, he repeatedly stated that the “social bases of self-respect” were the most important primary goods, since “without [self-respect] nothing may seem worth doing.”
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On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion
Joan Didion reflects on the personal and introspective nature of keeping a notebook, delving into memory, self-reflection, and the significance of past experiences.
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In many ways, writing is the act of saying I, of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying listen to me, see it my way, change your mind . It’s an aggressive, even a hostile act. You can disguise its aggressiveness all you want with veils of subordinate clauses and qualifiers and tentative subjunctives, with ellipses and evasions—with the whole... See more