Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so. Gertrude Stein More Quotes by Gertrude Stein More Quotes From Gertrude Stein Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume. Gertrude Stein positionassuming We are always the same age inside. Gertrude Stein confidencehappy-birthdaypositive-thinking If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles. Gertrude Stein communicationfightingwriting One must dare to be happy. Gertrude Stein dare Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. Gertrude Stein womenliteratureinspirational After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there. Gertrude Stein realwritingcountry 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. Gertrude Stein marriedcoupletwo The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free … The only thing that any one wants now is to be free, to be let alone, to live their life as they can, but not to be watched, controlled and scared, no no, not. Gertrude Stein scaredwantfeels In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling. Gertrude Stein eveningfeelingsmorning In America ... who is to stop congress from spending too much money. They will not stop themselves, that is certain. Everybody has to think about that now. Who is to stop them. Gertrude Stein governmentamericathinking You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived. Gertrude Stein stupidjobslying You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry. Gertrude Stein trackvisioninspirational Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing. Gertrude Stein writing-and-readingreadingwriting I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said. Gertrude Stein portraitsdifferencesart you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa. Gertrude Stein iowacaretaken Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. Gertrude Stein literatureairbelieve A 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 Stein generationsconsciousfirsts 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. Gertrude Stein upsetfriendlyamerica I am I because my little dog knows me. Gertrude Stein doglittlesfriendship Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure? Gertrude Stein sequencepleasureshould
