Quote of the Day by Joan Didion: ‘The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs’ Renowned as one of America’s most influential essayists, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Self-respect, Joan Didion once wrote, cannot be faked. It depends on "a sense of one's intrinsic worth". You can pretend or lie or ...