But 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?’
GERTRUDE STEINEverybody 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.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
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We are always the same age inside.
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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?
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I wish that I was where I am.
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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.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
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Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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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.
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There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
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Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
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