Recently, I received an email from an ex-housemate who has moved on to greener pastures (read: complete her dissertation).
In the body of the email was Joan Didion’s essay On Self-Respect. Below is an excerpt.

“To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love . . . → Read More: Joan Didion’s On Self-Respect (excerpt)