Famous quotes containing the words wharton and/or model:
“After all, one knows ones weak points so well, that its rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them & invent others.”
—Edith Wharton (18621937)
“She represents the unavowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelityand infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.”
—Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)