"Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair."
~ Edith Wharton, The Touchstone. Want to know what Wharton really thought about her own beauty? Read this scathing and sarcastic Roman à clef about her lover Morton Fullerton. (via laphamsquarterly)
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