Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.
Gertrude AthertonBetter extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.
Gertrude Athertonthere is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
Gertrude AthertonThe world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.
Gertrude Atherton