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 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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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
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In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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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.
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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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