Joan Didion from “On Self-Respect” (1961)
In brief, people
with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve;
they display what was once called character, a quality which, although
approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to other, more
instantly negotiable virtues. Nonetheless, character—the willingness to
accept responsibility for one’s own life—is the source from which
self-respect springs.
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