Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold 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...
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
—James C. Scott in Two Cheers for Anarchism