Quotes by Gertrude Stein

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.

There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

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.

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?’