Quotes from Gertrude Stein

Whenever you get there, there is no there there.

America is my country, and Paris is my home town.

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

You are all a lost generation.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

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.

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?'

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs.

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

It is very easy to love alone.

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.