Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.
Gertrude Stein

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Gertrude Stein

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

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Gertrude Stein

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
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 does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Gertrude Stein

Remarks are not literature.
Gertrude Stein

Romance is everything.
Gertrude Stein

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Gertrude Stein

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

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Gertrude Stein

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.
Gertrude Stein

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
Gertrude Stein

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
Gertrude Stein