Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Women
Resisting
Kind
Attacking
Way
Aggression
Men
Resistance
Kinds
Winning
Success
Two
More quotes by Gertrude Stein
There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
Gertrude Stein
She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
Gertrude Stein
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
To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.
Gertrude Stein
A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.
Gertrude Stein
If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.
Gertrude Stein
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Gertrude Stein
Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
Gertrude Stein
A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover. A at most. Saint saint a saint.
Gertrude Stein
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
Gertrude Stein
More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.
Gertrude Stein
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
When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.
Gertrude Stein
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.
Gertrude Stein
I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
Gertrude Stein
The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
Gertrude Stein
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
Gertrude Stein
Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
Gertrude Stein
If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.
Gertrude Stein
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
Gertrude Stein
