Isabella Atchue’s Reviews > The House of Mirth > Status Update

see could never be me because I have such a strong penchant for vengeance

reading about Lilys life and her bad decision making and inability to play society’s game is torturous

pausing for a moment to say 1. Edith Wharton has to be the most talented writer I’ve read I mean her imagery and prose are pure genius and 2. You can tell Selden was written by a woman because he has… como se dice …. empathy

Being a woman is so hard

getting the urge to cry for the generations of women before me who had to depend so terribly on men like wowwwwwww i’d so be Gerty Farish

could not imagine living in this time period and having to be so careful to appease the men in your life because your life literally depends on it

so many new vocabulary words thanks Edith

"a woman must, a man may if he chooses" only like 10 pages in and Edith is clocking the shit out of the patriarchy