Amy

“She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life.”
― Edith Wharton

“Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.”
― Edith Wharton

“She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth