Gertrude Stein

"You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance."

"One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they neve…"

"Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume."

"And so I am an American and I have lived half my life in Paris, not the half that made me but the half in which I made what I made."

"There are many that I know and I know it. They are many that I know and they know it. They are all of them themselves and they repeat it and I hear it. Always I listen to it. Slowly I come to understa…"

"When you are writing before there is an audience anything written is as important as any other thing and you cherish anything and everything that you have written. After the audience begins, naturally…"

"Politeness does not interfere with facts, politeness is just another fact."

"When General Osborne came to see me just after the victory, he asked me what I thought should be done to educate the Germans. I said there is only one thing to be done and that is to teach them disobe…"