Top 103 Quotes by Gertrude Stein

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?'

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

History takes time. History makes memory.

Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.

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.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.