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Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life—is the source from which self-respect springs.

Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power · 1961

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Didion, Joan. "On Self-Respect." Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.

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Didion, Joan. "Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power." Vogue, 1 Aug. 1961.

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