“It was once suggested to me that, as an antidote to crying, I put my head in a paper bag. As it happens, there is a sound physiological reason, something to do with oxygen, for doing exactly that, but the psychological effect alone is incalculable: it is difficult in the extreme to continue fancying…”— Joan Didion, vogue.comTagged: Self-Respect, How To Think, Literature and Life, Vintage Words
“Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tr…”— Joan Didion, vogue.comTagged: The Person You'll Become, How To Think, Self-Awakening, The Woke Book