To believe in ‘the greater good’ is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension. Joan Didion Read Quote
To make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone ‘oppressed’ to beat them: every revolutionist is presumed to understand that, and also every woman, which either does or does not make 51 percent of the population of the United States a potentially revolutionary class. Joan Didion Read Quote
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image. Joan Didion Read Quote
The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way. Joan Didion Read Quote
In many ways, writing is the act of saying ‘I,’ of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying, ‘Listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.’ It’s an aggressive, even a hostile act. Joan Didion Read Quote
