Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so. — Gertrude Stein
Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so. — Gertrude Stein
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking. — Gertrude Stein
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. — Gertrude Stein
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself. — Gertrude Stein
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. — Gertrude Stein
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it — Gertrude Stein
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write. — Gertrude Stein
You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived — Gertrude Stein
If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous. — Gertrude Stein
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. — Gertrude Stein
Anything scares me, anything scares anyone but really after all considering how dangerous — Gertrude Stein