FIVE JOAN DIDION QUOTES


1. Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

2. 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.

3. To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

4. The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

5. To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves -- there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.