Gertrude Stein

"Writing is like describing a journey in the act of taking it."

"Words belong to the person who speaks them."

"When this you see remember me and think of how I loved simplicity."

"I love my friends in the way of a woman but not in the way of being a woman."

"The Academie Française will never accomplish what I can accomplish."

"Silence that means something is better than silence that does not."

"If something is not worth doing it is not worth doing well."

"One cannot underestimate the pleasure of being alone."

"What is the use of being an American if you weren't born free."

"I will tell you what Jean Cocteau is not."

"Americans are people with more of a consciousness of being American than other people have of nationality."

"Punctuation is in favour of periodic sentences, of books."

"Money is really not the root of all evil at all."

"No master and no apprentices."

"For me the theatre is no longer a play but a story of the human heart."

"Teaching is the best way of learning."

"It does not make any difference if in my life I am busy or not busy."

"The answer to everything, is money."

"There are too many things to say."

"I do believe that the existence of everything depends upon the existence of something else."

"Human nature is not black and white but black and grey."

"I am I because my little dog knows me."

"Do you see how these leaves are alike, they are not the same thing."

"Romantic but not sentimental."

"The old masters took it seriously they took everything seriously."

"I am no more important than anything else."

"In the act of creation there is a moment of ecstasy."

"It is so easy to think of oneself as too complicated ever to be worth the effort."

"A solemn oath is of no more binding force on me than water."

"I am forgetting about those women who are important in the life of other women."