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They had instilled in them, young, a certain discipline, the sense that one lives by doing things one does not particularly want to do, by putting fears and doubts to one side, by weighing immediate comforts against the possibility of larger, even intangible, comforts.
On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay from the Pages of Vogue | VogueLike Jordan Baker, people with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things. If they choose to commit adultery, they do not then go running, in an access of bad conscience, to receive absolution from the wronged parties; nor do they complain unduly of the unfairness, the undeserved embarrassment, of being named corespondent. If they choose to forego their work—say it is screenwriting—in favor of sitting around the Algonquin bar, they do not then wonder bitterly why the Hacketts, and not they, did Anne Frank.
On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay from the Pages of Vogue | Vogueinnocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
On Self-Respect: Joan Didion’s 1961 Essay from the Pages of Vogue | Vogue