There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton (1862 CE-1927 CE), Edith Wharton 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 to win the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, for her novel The Age of Innocence.