Joan Didion On Self-respect

This quote from author and literary journalist Joan Didion speaks powerfully to me. Anyone else? "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. If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with... Joan Didion On Self-respect
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