Ben Jackson’s Reviews > The Portrait of a Lady > Status Update

''...you should have a point of view. Yours doesn't seem to be American...When I criticize, I have mine, it's thoroughly American!'

"My dear young lady,' said Mrs. Touchett, 'there are as many points of view as there are people of sense. You may say that doesn't make them very numerous! American? Never in the world; that's shockingly narrow. My point of view, thank God, is personal!'