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Joan Didion

“To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.”

Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
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