Quote

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

Gertrude Stein

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
Art Collector
Author
Autobiographer
Collector
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Salonnière
Writer
Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
Gertrude Stein
Literature
Woman
Doe
Epoch
Important
Hiking
Thinking
Climb
Climbs
Remind
Literary

More quotes by Gertrude Stein

Image
To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.
Gertrude Stein
Image
One thing is certain the only thing that makes you younger or older is that nothing can happen that is different from what you expected and when that happens and it mostly does happen everything is different from what you expected then there is no difference between being younger or older.
Gertrude Stein
Image
You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
Gertrude Stein
Image
The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
Gertrude Stein
Image
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
Gertrude Stein
Image
Argument is to me the air I breathe.
Gertrude Stein
Image
there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.
Gertrude Stein
Image
You are all a lost generation.
Gertrude Stein
Image
I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.
Gertrude Stein
Image
Perhaps I am not I even if my little dog knows me but anyway I like what I have and now it is today.
Gertrude Stein
Image
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
Gertrude Stein
Image
Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.
Gertrude Stein
Image
I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I've got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that's the answer.
Gertrude Stein
Image
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
Gertrude Stein
Image
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein
Image
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Gertrude Stein
Image
No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and what in delight and not, in no sense innocence in no sense no sense what, in no sense and delight, and in no sense and delight and not in no sense and delight and not, no sense in no sense innocence and delight.
Gertrude Stein
Image
One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
Gertrude Stein
Image
Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.
Gertrude Stein
Image
There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
Gertrude Stein