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.
GERTRUDE STEINYou are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.
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?’
GERTRUDE STEINIt is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
GERTRUDE STEINIf you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
GERTRUDE STEINWhat is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
GERTRUDE STEINA creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
GERTRUDE STEINOne must dare to be happy.
GERTRUDE STEINAction and reaction are equal and opposite.
GERTRUDE STEINThere 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 STEINLadies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
GERTRUDE STEINNature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
GERTRUDE STEINA diary means yes indeed.
GERTRUDE STEINI have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
GERTRUDE STEINI wish that I was where I am.
GERTRUDE STEINAmerica is my country and Paris is my hometown.
GERTRUDE STEINAnyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
GERTRUDE STEIN