To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
To make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone 'oppressed' to beat them: every revolutionist is presumed to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
A lot of the stories I was brought up on had to do with extreme actions - leaving everything behind, crossing the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I work every day. Sometimes I don't accomplish anything every day, but if I don't work every day, I get depressed and get afraid… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving butter cookies… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a point when choice was any more than sum… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Research to date has shown that, like many other stressors, grief frequently leads to changes in the endocrine, immune, autonomic nervous, and cardiovascular systems;… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“By the end of the week she was thinking constantly about where her body stopped and the air began about the exact point in… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
