Claire Donald
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Oh, Jesus Christ.
Aren't we all still trying to, you know, get there?
Women are constantly conditioned to monitor ourselves constantly through the eyes of how others are perceiving us.
And Joan was like, ladies, that's emotional dependency.
Yeah.
You are never going to get anywhere satisfying with that outlook, are you?
No, exactly.
She was like, self-respect is emotional independence.
And at this time, articles in Vogue were mainly about fashion and makeup and all of that.
Like how to keep your husband happy, probably.
Exactly.
And here comes Joan Didion being like, you got to learn how to respect yourself.
And at 20 years old, I was not even thinking about self-respect at 20.
No.
Kind of the opposite.
I was very much practicing the opposite test.
Yeah, you got that right.
So when she's at Vogue, she spends seven years working her way up from copywriter to editor.
Oh, my God.
Anna Wintour was interviewed in her doc.