"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
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More From Joan Didion
- "Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power."
- "You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that."
- "Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power."
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- "I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he’s clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don’t think he’s funny in either the way that Reagan was funny – or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way."― Mo Rocca
- "I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I’ve reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine."― Kate Smith
- "A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame."― Boris Yeltsin