I wish that I was where I am.
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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It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.
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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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Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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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?’
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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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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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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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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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
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Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
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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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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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