What is the answer? Silence In that case, what is the question? – Gertrude Stein
There aint no answer. There aint gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. Thats the answer. – Gertrude Stein
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still dont get young men standing up and saying, How can I combine career and family? – Gertrude Stein
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesnt make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. – Gertrude Stein
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work. – Gertrude Stein
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens. – Gertrude Stein
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so. – Gertrude Stein
That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back. – Gertrude Stein
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost. – Gertrude Stein
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. – Gertrude Stein
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. – Gertrude Stein
Romance is everything. – Gertrude Stein
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. – Gertrude Stein
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody. – Gertrude Stein
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient. – Gertrude Stein
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. – Gertrude Stein
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country. – Gertrude Stein
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. – Gertrude Stein
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. – Gertrude Stein
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation. – Gertrude Stein
