"It seems easier to most people to arrange a room like some one else’s than to analyze and express their own needs. Men, in these matters, are less exacting than women, because their demands, besides being simpler, are uncomplicated by the feminine tendency to want things because other people have them, rather than to have things because they are wanted."
Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr., The Decoration of Houses (1898)
