Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness. Gertrude Atherton More Quotes by Gertrude Atherton More Quotes From Gertrude Atherton Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world. Gertrude Atherton realhomewriting Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy. Gertrude Atherton firemothermen The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next. Gertrude Atherton majorityminoritiesgenerations The final result of too much routine is death in life. Gertrude Atherton routinefinalstoo-much The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception. Gertrude Atherton deceptionselfmind All women want to be understood until they understand themselves. Gertrude Atherton women-wantunderstoodwant Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration. Gertrude Atherton inspirationwritingmorning Success is a great healer. Gertrude Atherton healersuccess the only revenge worth having is success. Gertrude Atherton revenge We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them. Gertrude Atherton careknowspeople there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything. Gertrude Atherton one-thingknowsknowledge The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities. Gertrude Atherton realsexart The French are a race of individuals. There is no type. Gertrude Atherton franceindividualrace stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French. Gertrude Atherton stoicismfrancefundamentals her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius. Gertrude Atherton mixturesgeniusage genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions. Gertrude Atherton braincharacterlong nothing in life is more corroding than habit. Gertrude Atherton habitlife-is There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity. Gertrude Atherton unsatisfiedcuriosity Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit. Gertrude Atherton jesuitrevolutionleader Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit. Gertrude Atherton knowingagelying
