Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.
Edith WhartonTo know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.
Edith WhartonTag: wisdom
The bounds of a personality are not reproducible by a sharp black line, but...each of us flows imperceptibly into adjacent people and things.
Edith WhartonLife is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith WhartonTag: tough-broad
Lily sank with a sigh into one of the shabby leather chairs. "How delicious to have a place like this all to one's self! What a miserable thing it is to be a woman." She leaned back in a luxury of discontent.
Edith WhartonThe real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.
Edith WhartonPerhaps, after all, Susy reflected, it was the world she was meant for, since the other, the brief Paradise of her dreams, had already shut its golden doors upon her.
Edith WhartonTrue originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.
Edith WhartonTag: writing
Each time you happen to me all over again.
Edith WhartonThere are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter.
Edith WhartonTag: wharton
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