Didion & Babitz

“They are less in rebellion of society than ignorant of it,” she wrote. “Their only proficient vocabulary is in the society’s platitudes. As it happens I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one’s self depends upon one’s mastery of the language, and I am not optimistic about children who settle for saying, to indicate that their mother and father do not live together, that they come from ‘a broken home.’”