A biography for Gertrude Steinhasn’t been written yet.
“Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.”
“I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.”
“It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.”
“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?'”
“Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.”
“What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.”
“I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.”
“America is my country and Paris is my hometown.”
“Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.”
“There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.”
“The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.”
“Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.”
“Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.”
“Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
“Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”
“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.”
“I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.”
“Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.”
“Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.”
“Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.”