"I never had much interest in being a……" — Joan Didion

"I never had much interest in being a child. As a way of being it seemed flat, failed to engage."

— Joan Didion

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204 Quotes by Joan Didion

Joan Didion has 204 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are…
Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions…
In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you…
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position…
Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it…
My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you…
People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one…
It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want…
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they…
Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't…
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and…
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I… — Asia Argento
I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild… — Margaret Atwood
As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child,… — Diane Ackerman
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a… — Gaston Bachelard
I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center… — Michele Bachmann
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar… — Enid Bagnold
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. — James A. Baldwin
There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of… — James A. Baldwin
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended? — Honore de Balzac
When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I… — Joyce Banda
It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a… — Tyra Banks

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