Life Quote by Edith Wharton

“Her hospitality was something exquisite; she had the gift which so many women lack, of being able to make themselves and their houses belong…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“Perhaps this was what it was to grow up: this realization that the world was already staffed with people and that one was not…

— Chris Cleave

“People made no sense to her. Men, with whom she had everything in common, did not want her around. Women, with whom she had…

— Philipp Meyer

“She is no one, because she lacks any trait that might render her visible: beauty, money, conformity.”

— Kate Millett

“She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once static and…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It was all so artificial. It was beautiful, but it did not belong to her. She was a tourist, an outsider, and she could…

— Penni Russon

“large part of her simplicity consisted in determining not to want what she could not have with ease. So”

— James Baldwin

“She needed a world without so many standards and restrictions and expectations–one more friendly to a girl who thought differently from other people.”

— Cinda Williams Chima

“She became whomever she needed to be to survive, but she never let anyone else define her.”

— Jodi Picoult

“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living…

— Mohsin Hamid

“She had met people who had tried to fit in. She had met people who tried to stand out. But until then she had…

— Millie Florence