Edith Wharton Quote

But hismarital education had since made strides, and he now knew that adisregard for money may imply not the willingness to get on withoutit but merely a blind confidence that it will somehow be provided. IfUndine, like the lilies of the field, took no care, it was not becauseher wants were as few but because she assumed that care would be takenfor her by those whose privilege it was to enable her to unite floralinsouciance with Sheban elegance.

Edith Wharton

But hismarital education had since made strides, and he now knew that adisregard for money may imply not the willingness to get on withoutit but merely a blind confidence that it will somehow be provided. IfUndine, like the lilies of the field, took no care, it was not becauseher wants were as few but because she assumed that care would be takenfor her by those whose privilege it was to enable her to unite floralinsouciance with Sheban elegance.

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About Edith Wharton

Edith Newbold Wharton (; née Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gilded Age. In 1921, she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Age of Innocence. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1996. Her other well-known works are The House of Mirth, the novella Ethan Frome, and several notable ghost stories.