Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
GERTRUDE STEINBut the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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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.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers’ granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
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